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PREFACE.
I HAVE been often, and by many, invited to leave in
print, from my extensive manuscript collections, some
records of the families indigenous to, or long natural-
ized in Ireland ; their origin, actings, and ' habitats.'
Yet it was not until a crisis of natural hurricanes
had felled 'the flowers of the forest,' and dismantled
their once flourishing companions, of bloom and foliage,
that the appeal was mournfully efiective. It was not
a task of labour to me ; it was willingly and zealously
undertaken. I examined my relics of other days ;
and one little tract, of which I had a copy, the
Muster Roll of the Army of King James the Second
in Ireland, giving the names of the several Colonels
and subaltern officers of the respective Regiments of
Horse, Dragoons, and Infantry in his service, seemed
f akin to the subject I sought to effectuate. The
I families in commission thereupon, upwards of five
hundred, were the aristocracy of their country at that
1"
!
X PREFACE.
day ; and though all who were then able to bear
arms in the Stuart cause, were decimated on the
deadly fields of this campaign, very many names still
survived and struggled in respectability and tenure
almost to the present time.
When I embraced the project, I devoted to its
accomplishment such literary aid as I could draw
from those manuscripts, which it has cost me nearly
fifty years of labour, research, and outlay to accumu-
late. They extend through upwards of two hundred
volumes, and especially supply a singular mass of in-
formation for illustrating the lineage, honours and
achievements of families connected with Ireland by
*• title, tenure, rank, birtli, or alliance. Having here-
tofore furnished some genealogical Memoirs on liberal
support, I felt confident that, when I embraced a
grouping so extensive as that of King James's Army
List, more than the mere expenses of my outlay in
printing and paper would be cheerfully volunteered
for my indemnity. I gave every reasonable publicity
to the project, and was gratified by the warm co-
operation of the Irish press and some of the English.
I also issued very generally circulars, in which were
detailed the Regiments to be treated of; Eight of
Horse, Seven of Dragoons, and Fifty-six of Infantry ;
on all which the Colonels, Majors, Captains and sub-
PREFACE. XI
altems are named and classed. Of the family of each
I proposed to give Historical and Genealogical Illus-
trations ; with especial regard, in the case of Irish
Septs, to their respective ancient localities ; and in
that of surnames introduced from England or Scot-
land, to the counties from which they migrated, and
the periods of their coming over. After some notices
of early chronology, I designed to shew how far each
of these was affected by Cromwell's Denunciation
Ordinance of 1652, and by attainders and confisca-
tions, more particularly those of 1642 and 1691 ;
how they were represented in Sir John Perrot's memo-
rable Conciliation Parliament of 1585, in the Assem-
bly of Confederate Catholics at Kilkenny in 1646,
and in King James's own Parliament of May, 1689;
what members of those names were distinguished by
Royal Thanks in the Act of Settlement ; how far they
were nominated in King James's New Charters ; what
claims were preferred, and with what success, against
their confiscations at Chichester House in 1700; and
lastly, to a reasonable extent, their subsequent honours
and achievements in the exiled Brigades. This latter
designed portion has however been, as I indeed an-
ticipated in my Circular, considerably lessened by the
recent and continuing publication of Mr. O'Callaghan,
whose researches, diligence, and enthusiasm peculiarly
XU PREFACE.
qualified him for the task. Of this my scope of illus-
trations, a Peer, of high literary attainments and of
the most active and practical nationality, was pleased
to write to me, "If the work is carried on according
to your plan, it will prove a most valuable compila-
tion, and be absolutely indispensable for the library
of every Irishman."
I calculated that the Illustrations should extend
from six hundred to eight hundred pages ; but, as-
sured as I might well feel by such a testimonial, that
the sale would be very extensive (at least one thou-
sand copies), I limited the price for subscribers to ten
shillings ; while I sought to indemnify myself against
possible loss in the outlay, and in probable though un-
designed defalcation in the collecting of small sums
from widely scattered and shifting subscribers (a
large number in America), by requiring that an in-
demnity of £200, irrespective of copies^ should be
secured to me by those who felt nationally or indi-
vidually interested in the work. My collections for
this indemnity commenced in last March, and a List
for general subscribers was opened at the same time.
In June the Indemnity had reached only £100, and
not three hundred copies were engaged, when it was
my first thought to return the money so advanced
and abandon the project ; but, thinking such conduct
PREFACE. Xlll
might be considered a breach of faith with those
who had fulfilled their parts, I put the manuscript
in the printer's hands, limiting the impression to
five hundred copies, while the price remained unal-
tered. As the work progressed through the press, I
felt that I had much under-rated its extent ; my own
materials for the several memoirs would have far ex-
ceeded one thousand pages, yet was it not until much
of the book was printed oflF, that at p. 353 I felt
necessitated to commence the irksome labour of abridg-
ing and pruning the ensuing copy. It remains,
however, an overgrown volume. The payments to the
Indemnity are yet but £157 lis. ; the number of scat-
tered copies engaged, little more than four hundred.
Such are my especial grounds of disappointment.
Those to the cause I have felt more deeply.
I was too well aware of that destruction of the
genealogical archives of my country, which cam-
paigns of slaughter, confiscation, and persecution
had effected. Two great civil wars, the result of
misguided loyalty and ill-requited enthusiasm, having
involved and crushed, with relentless ruin, the native
aristocracies of each period, all Ireland became in
a manner forfeited from its old proprietors, subjected
as they were to a succession of parliamentary attain-
ders. The victims of this fatal policy, expatriated
r
XIV PREFACE.
from the scenes of their hereditary history, were at
least eager, wlien they could, to carry with them its
reconls and memorials. They snatched up from tlie
libraries and monasteries and cabinets, the annals, the
muniments, the title-deeds of the land. They carried
them off as all of venerable that could then W saved
from the desolation that rioted over their homes.
They treasured them as the Penates of their early
attachment ; and, when they looked uix)n the moul-
dering fragments of these native documents, in the
respective lands of their exile, the remembrance of
their country was softened into melancholy endurance.
In all my circulars and otherwise, I sedulously la-
boured to discover such of these memorials as might
yet scantily exist, and solicited the inspection of any
ancient family manuscripts, pedigrees, diaries, or cor-
respondence, notes of well accredited tradition or local
memorials, that might be relevant to the times, and
could be afforded or obtained. They should explain,
strengthen, verify, and enrich my own notices ; iden-
tify the cavaliers and their descendants whom I
sought to record, and establish links of their respective
kindred. I thought the opportunity I thus afforded
of noting, as on record, what may otherwise be forever
lost, would be zealously embraced ; yet was my appeal
responded to only by the O'Donovan of Montpelier,
PREFACE. XV
Messrs. Hurley, Haly, O'CarroU-Dempster, Loughrian,
Browne of Mx)yne, and O'KeeflFe. I was left to the
exclusive resources of my own manuscripts, and the
able and fortunately numerous genealogical publica-
tions of Sir Bernard Burke. If, therefore, my illus-
trations could not be rendered complete, or if, yet
more, they are erroneous, blame should attach more to
those who withheld information within their know-
ledge, than to me who vainly sought it. I did not
profess to connect pedigrees, but only to preserve
scattered — undoubted links, and aflFord legal evi-
dence of their former existence. So anxious, however,
am I that these ' discerpta membra' should be re-
connected and faithfully restored, that, while life is
spared to me, I shall gladly receive such ancient
family papers and vouchers as I heretofore sought,
test them by my own collections, and, embodying all
with what I have been obliged to withdraw from the
present work, I shall be able from the whole to digest
all that is relevant, and cast away surplusage. Or,
if so great a general labour is beyond attainment or
due encouragement, I shall give the results of partial
prompt communications, as addenda to the present
volume, or more gladly assign the whole to a publisher.
I shall only take leave to add, that all the state-
ments in this volume are based upon pure authorities.
XVI PREFACE.
and^ as far as possible, are given in their language,
the native annals being chiefly adopted from the Four
Masters : and I confidently rely that the several
* Illustrations ' herein develop scenes, events, and
doings of chivalrous loyalty, disinterested friendship,
and devoted love, such as the history of less stirring
times cannot afford. The names of the respective
actors are arranged in a copious Index.
JOHN D'ALTON.
48, Sammer-hill, Dublin.
29th October, 1855.
ILLUSTRATIONS
OF
KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST (1689).
— »»|0 —
The Civil War, that commenced in Ireland in 1689,
and whose discomfited partisans, their broken fortunes
and attainted families, the ensuing pages are designed
to record, originated in bitter feelings, generated a
century and an half previously, when the relentless
arm of one, whom history has truly delineated a Royal
Despot, sought to enforce the religion of the Refor-
mation on that reluctant country. Happily, it is not
necessary nor fitting here to enter into unwelcome
controversy ; enough to rely upon the facts of his-
tory, and confidently to assert that in Ireland, legis-
lative persecution was pre-eminently directed to such
an object. The declaration of the king's supremacy,
the abolition of appeals to Rome, the conferring the
election to ecclesiastical preferments on the Crown,
(not only of bishoprics, but those of exclusively Roman
Catholic endowed abbeys, priories, and colleges) ; the
suppression of the principal religious establishments
on delusive surrenders, the confiscation and lay ap-
propriation of their revenues and possessions, created
B
2 KLVG JAMES S IRISH ARMY LIST.
feelings of hostility to the English government, that
the progress of time but encreased On Queen Mary's
accession, her parliament suspended the action of these
penal inflictions, — Queen Elizabeth restored them
with the superadded terrors of the Act of Uniformity.
This autocratic effort of bigotry was, it may be said,
allowed to sleep during her reign, but, in the times of
her successors, it was startled into vigorous operation.
The policy of James the First devised in 1613 a
new and more temporal grievance for the Irish peo-
ple ; — the Commission of Grace, as it was styled, which
abolished the old tenures of immemorial native use,
tanistry and gavelkind. The uncertain exactions,
theretofore imposed upon the tenantry, were, it is
true, thereby altered into certain annual rents and
free holdings, a change that would at first sight ap-
pear beneficial to the people ; but, when it is under-
stood that these Irish tenures gave occupants only a
life estate in their lands, and that, while these were
suffered to exist, no benefit whatsoever could accrue
to the crown on attainders ; whereas the new patents,
which this commission, as on defective titles, invited
the proprietors to take out, gave the fee to the king, the
old being for ever surrendered, they were obvious and
powerful securities, that, on any act as of constructive
treason, might absorb the whole interest from the
native tanists. At the same time fell upon the Irish
Catholic population, what the Protestant Bishop of
Leighlin and Ferns, in an official return of 1612,
designated, " the payment of double tithes and offer-
KING JAMES'S lEISH ABMT LIST.
ings, the one paid by them to ^^5, and the other unt
their own Clergy.''
In 1626, in the pecuniary exigencies of the es
chequer, King Charles was induced to proflFer ne^
' Graces,' as a consideration for liberal advances c
money from the Irish Roman Catholics. By this devic
it was provided, that the taking of the oath of supremac;
should be dispensed with, and ecclesiastical exaction
be modified ; privileges which the Deputy Lord Fali
land caused to be proclaimed over the country. Hi
successor, the unfortunate Lord Strafford, howevei
having recommended their retrenchment, the King*!
intentions were in point of fact but little attended to
and, while the Catholic members, who sat in the Par
liament of 1640, relying on their fulfilment, joined ii
voting the large supplies required, the King's lettei
and the order for levying these subsidies containec
no recognition of the promised Graces. That Par-
liament adjourned on the 7th of August, 1641 ; and
it is not to be wondered, that the native Irish and
the whole Catholic population were thereupon too na-
tionally excited to an assertion in arms of privileges,
their King had promised — had actually jiated^ but
which his Irish Viceroy refused to ratify. They saw
that King over-ruled, they felt that their altars were
denounced, their homes invaded, and their titles con-
founded by alleged defects and deceitful commissions.
The ensuing 21st of October witnessed the outbreak
of an insurrection, that bequeathed an inheritance of
jealousy and disunion to Ireland from that day. " We
B 2
4 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
declare unto your Lordship,'' said the confederate
Catholics, in an address framed on the Hill of Tara,
to the Marquess of Clanricarde, " that the only scope
and purpose of our taking up arms is for the honour
of God, to obtain a free exercise of the ancient
Catholic Roman religion, so long and so constantly
adhered unto by us and our progenitors in this King-
dom, whereof we are threatened to be utterly deprived,
and from which nothing but death or utter extirpation
shall remove us. " The attainders and confiscations,
consequent upon this war, followed up as they were
with peculiar hostility by the Cromwellian adven-
turers, that were let in upon the island, heaped fi^h
heart-burnings and unceasing discontent on the
Catholic party. On the final success of these invaders,
a body of ftx)m 30 to 40,000 Irish, plundered of their
estates, and unwilling to submit to the revolution-
ary government, left their country under different
leaders, and entered the service of France, Spain,
Austria, and Venice ; but ever still with the object
of aiding the exiled Stuarts, and promoting their re-
storation to sovereignty. Their services as such were
acknowledged on paper in a section of the Act of
Settlement (14 & 15 Car. 2, c. 2, s. 25). Some, as
" having, for * reasons known unto us, in an especial
manner, merited our grace and favour f others, as
" having continued with us, or served faithfully under
our ensigns beyond the seas." But their loyalty to
that ungrateful and incompetent dynasty experienced
a thrilling disappointment, when the restoration c
KING JAMES'S IBISH ARMY LIST. 5
Charles restored nothing to them ; nay, worse, when
that King confirmed the grants certified for the ad-
venturers and soldiers of the usurper, whUe even his
brother, the Catholic Duke of York, the James the
Second of this work, obtained recognition patents for
276,000 acres, forfeited in various parts of Ireland by
the cavaliers, who, like those of the following " Army
List,^ fought and fell ^pro aria et focis' Loyalty to
such a King, the descendant of such a race, cannot
therefore be deemed the exclusive or even the para-
mount incentive of the resistance to King William.
In 1661, the Eoman Catholic Clergy of Ireland
preferred to the King their " Humble Remonstrance,
Acknowledgment, Protestation, and Petition," wherein
they represented that, " being entrusted, by the indis-
pensable permission of the King of Kings, with the
cure of souls and the care of our flocks, in order to the
administration of the sacraments ; and teaching the
people that perfect obedience, which for conscience sake
they are bound to pay to your Majesty, we are yet
'laden' with calumnies, and persecuted with severity,''
and they strongly deprecated " those calumnies, under
which our tenets in religion, and our dependence upon
the Pope's authority are aspersed ; and we humbly beg
your Majesty's pardon to vindicate both by the ensuing
protestation, which we make in the sight of heaven
and in the presence of your ^IB^ty, sincerely and
truly, without equivocation or mental reservation."
The Remonstrance then proceeded to enlarge upon the
unmerited injuries inflicted upon themselves and their
6 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
flocks, and prayed the royal protection. This memo-
rial was accompanied by the " Faithful and Humble
Remonstrance of the Roman Catholic Nobility and
Gentry of Ireland,** in which they set forth " the pro-
digious afftictions under which the monarchy of Great
Britain had, before his Majesty's happy Restoration,
groaned these twenty years ; and out of our sad
thoughts, which daily bring more and more sighs
from our breasts, and tears from our eyes, for the
still as yet continued miseries and sufferings of the
Catholic natives of this our unfortunate country, even
amidst, and ever since the so much famed joys and
triumphs of your Sacred Majesty's most auspicious
inauguration ;" and the Petitioners, referring to and
identifying themselves with the aforesaid Remonstrance
of the Clergy, then proceeded to vindicate themselves,
solemnly pledged their loyalty, and disclaimed any
power of the Pope to loosen their allegiance, or sanc-
tion their rebellion. It forms no inapt introduction
to the * Army List,' here to give the names of those
laymen, who signed that protestation ; they will be
found in many instances identical, or at least of
kindred with those in the present record : —
Luke, Earl of Fingal ; Arthur, Viscount Iveagh ;
Morrough, Earl of Inchequin ; William, Viscount Clane ;
Donogh, Earl of Clancarty ; Charles Viscount Muskerry ;
Oliver, Earl of lyrconnel ; WiUiam, Viscount Taafie ;
Theobald, Earl of Carlingford ; Oliver, Baron of Louth ;
Edmund, Viscount Mountgar- William, Bsu'on of Castleconnell;
ret ; Colonel Charles Dillon ;
Thomas, Viscount Dillon ^ Matthew Plunkett, Esq. ;
KING JAMES S IRISH ARMY LIST.
Lieut. Col. Ignatius Nugent ;
Edward Plunkett, Esq. ;
Nicholas Plunkett, Knight ;
Matthew Plunkett of Dun-
sanj;
Christopher Plunkett of Dun-
sanj;
James Dillon, Knight ;
Colonel Christopher Bryan ;
Robert Talbot, Baronet ;
Ulick Burke, Baronet ;
Edward Fitzharris, Baronet ;
Valentine Browne, Baronet ;
Luke Butler, Baronet ;
Henry SUngsby, Knight ;
John Bellew, Knight ;
Colonel William Burke ;
Colonel John Fitzpatrick ;
Colonel Brian Mac Mahon ;
Colonel Miles Reilly ;
Colonel Gilbert Talbot ;
Colonel Milo Power ;
Lieut .-Col. Pierce Lacy ;
Lieut.-Col. Ulick Bourke ;
Lieut.-Col. Thomas Scurlog ;
Jeffry Browne of Galway ;
John Walsh of Ballinvoher ;
Patrick Bryan ;
James Fitzgerald of Laccah ;
John Talbot of Malahide ;
Thomas Luttrell of Luttrells-
town;
John Holy wood of Artane ;
Henry, " son to Sir Phelim
OT^eUl;"
Dudley Bagnall of Dunleckney ;
Henry Draycott of Momir
ton;
Edward Butler of Monehire
Nicholas D'Arcy of Platten ;
Patrick Sarsfield of Lucan ;
John Mc Namara of Cratloe
James Talbot of Bellaconnel
Robert Balfe of Carrstown ;
James Talbot of Templeogu*
Patrick Archer ;
Luke Dowdall of Athlumnej
PhUip Hore of Eallsallaghai
James Bamwall of Bremore
James Allen of St. Wolstan'i
Thomas Cantwell of Ball;
makeidy ;
John Cantwell of Cantwell'
court ;
Edmund Dillon of Stream
town;
John Fleming of Stahalmock
Peter Sherlock of Gracedieu
Christopher Archbold of Time
lin ;
Patrick Moore of Dowanstown
Nicholas Haly of Towrine ;
Pierce Butler of Callan ;
Pierce Butler of Killveagh
legher ;
John Segrave of Cabragh ;
Richard Wadding of Kilbarry
Thomas Browne of Clondmet
roe;
Oliver Cashel of Dundalk ;
Patrick Clinton of Irish town ;
Captain Christopher Turner ;
8 KING JAMES'S IBISH ARMY UST.
John Bagot ; Thomas Sarsfield of Sarsfields-
William Grace ; town ;
John Arthur of Hogstown ; Pierce * Nangle ' of Monanimy ;
liarcufl LaSan of Greystown ; James Wolverston of Stillor-
Christopher Ay Imer of Balrath ; gan ;
James Plonket of Gibstown ; Michael Bret ;
Thomas St. John of Monks- Patrick Boylan of Bally-tumy-
town ; mac-Oris ;
William Barry Oge of Rincor- James White of Chambelly ;
ran ; Major Lawrence Dempsey ;
Richard Strong of Rockwell*s Captain Richard Dempsey ;
Castle ; Edward Nugent of Culvin ;
James Butler of Ballinakill ; Patrick Porter of Kingstown ;
Attthooy Colclough ; Major Marcus Furlong.
During the life time of King Charles, in 1669,
eight years after the Restoration, his brother James,
Duke of York, conformed to the Roman Catholic
wofBhip, being then aged 36. * In fifteen years after,
he succeeded to the Throne ; and his accession was
hailed by the great majority of the Irish people, very
naturally, as opening a fair prospect for their tolera-
tion and protection ; while he looked to their island
not less sanguinely, as the garrison of his creedsmen
and prop of his government. With the object of cor-
rectly ascertaining their feelings towards him, he sum-
moned those Irish officials, that he considered most
competent to advise him, to a meeting at Chester, in
1687. On the 27th August in that year he entered
this ancient city, where " he was received by the cor-
poration in their robes. He was afterwards splendidly
* Clarke's Memoirs of James II. vol. 1, p. 440, &c.
KING JAMES'S lEISH ASHY LIST. 9
entertained by them. He lodged at the Bishop's
Palace, from whence he walked next morning
(Sunday) through the City to the Castle (the Mayor
bare-headed, carrying the sword before him), heard
mass in the shire hall,. and received the sacrament
according to the Romish ritual, in the chapel in the
square tower of the Castle. On Monday he went to
Holywell ; on Tuesday returned to Chester ; and the
day following closeted several gentlemen, both of the
City and County, in order to prevail upon them to
approve of the repeal of the penal laws and Test Act ;
but he met with very little encouragement in that
way. On Thursday, September the first, the King left
Chester, not much satisfied with the disposition of the
people." * The English historian has made no men-
tion of the interview His Majesty had here with his
Irish officials ; but Tyrconnel, whom that King had
by his earliest exercise of the prerogative created an
Irish peer, was there, and in his suite were the Chief
Baron, Sir Stephen Rice ; the Chief Justice of the King's
Bench, Sir Thomas Nugent ; and other influential
individuals of the day, who will appear in subsequent
pages. These represented the state of Irish feeling to
be, as they thought it, in spirit and strength enthu-
siastically loyal.
In the preceding year, Tyrconnel had been ap-
pointed Viceroy of Ireland, from which time he had
devoted his attention to enrolling an army to uphold
* Ormerod's Cheshire, vol. 1, p. 211.
10
KL\G JAMES S IRISH ARMY LIST.
his Royal master's cause. The result of his exertions
is preserved in a manuscript of the British Museum,
(Lansdowne Collections, No. 1152, p. 229) as follows.
The promotions of many, before the day of action,
may be traced on the ensuing Army List : —
" A LIST OF COMMISSIONS, received and deUvered by Mr.
Sheridan since the Earl of Tyrconners coming Lord Deputy
of Ireland. February 12th, 168f, for the Lord Sunderland
till June 21st, 1687.
Anthony Hamilton, Colonel ;
Sir Neale O'Neille, Captain ;
Nicholas Purcell, Captain ;
William Nugent, Captain ;
William Hungate, Major;
Theo. Russell, Colonel ;
Theo. Russell, Lieut.- Col. ;
Walter Nugent, Captain ;
William Talbott, Major ;
Greorge Newcomen, Captiun ;
Walter Harvey, Captain ;
John Burk, Captain ;
Edward Fitzgerald, Captain ;
John Hamilton, Lieut. -Col. ;
Sir Charles Hamilton, Captain;
Richard ' Cussack,' Captain-
Lieutenant ;
Symon Luttrell, Lieut.-Col. ;
Lord Kilkenny-West, Captain ;
Ullick Bourk, Captain;
Francis Carroll, Major ;
James Netterville, Captain ;
Lord Mountjoy, Brigadier ;
John Gyles, Captain ;
Daniel Macarty, Captain ;
Sir Robert Grore, Captain ;
Robert Nangle, Captain.
COMMISSIONS OF HORSE.
Daniel O'Neill, Lieutenant ;
nUick Burk, Lieutenant ;
Greorge Bamewall, Comet ;
Robert Grace, Capt .-Lieut. ;
Francis Meara, Lieutenant ;
Edmond Butler, Comet ;
Edward Butler, Capt.-Lieut. ;
Walter Burke, Lieutenant ;
John Graydon, Comet ;
Robert Walsh, Comet ;
John Nugent, Cornet ;
John Nugent, Lieutenant ;
Henry Dillon, Lieutenant ;
Rene Mezandier, Lieutenant ;
Arthur Magennis, Comet ;
Francis Hamilton, Lieutenant;
Francis Preston, Comet ;
James Purcell, Cornet ;
George Gernon, Lieutenant.
KING James's ikish akmy list.
11
COMMISSIONS OF FOOT.
Henry Edge worth, Lieut. ;
Hugh O^Rourk, Lieutenant ;
William Netterville, Lieut. ;
John Dungan, Lieutenant ;
Jeffirej Connell, Ensign ;
Thomas Luttrell, Ensign ;
Beverley Newcomen, Ensign ;
Francis Slingsby, Lieutenant ;
Charles Manley, Lieutenant ;
Thomas Colt, Lieutenant ;
Anthony Malone, Lieutenant;
Richard Bamewall, Ensign ;
Richard Plunkett, Lieut. ;
Con. O^eill, Lieutenant;
John Talbott, Lieutenant ;
David Lundy, Ensign ;
John Talbott, Ensign ;
Arthur Fitton, Lieutenant ;
Flo. Fitzpatrick, Lieutenant ;
Thomas Talbott, Ensign ;
Edwd. Kindellan, Capt.-Iieut.;
Christopher Bamewall, Lieut. ;
Thomas Clayton, Ensign ;
Andrew Dorrington, Ensign ;
Mountjoy Blount, Ensign ;
Nicholas Tyrwhitt, Lieutenant ;
Edmond Keating, Ensign ;
Patrick Cheevers, Ensign ;
Charles Stuart, Ensign ;
Richard Bellew, Ensign ;
Henry Sheridan, Ensign ;
John Delahyde, Lieutenant ;
Daniel O'Sullivan, Lieutenant ;
Robert Russell, Lieutenant ;
John Macartane, Ensign ;
Michael ' Cussack,' Ensign ;
John Bellew, Ensign ;
Edmund Reyley, Ensign ;
George Darcy, Ensign ;
John White, Lieutenant ;
James Tobyn, Ensign ;
John Butler, Ensign ;
Geo. Haughton, Capt.-Lieut. ;
John Reynolds, Capt.-Lieut. ;
John Hogan, Lieutenant ;
Benjamin Tychbome, Ensign ;
Pierce Butler, Ensign ;
Nicholas Rooth, Ensign ;
Andrew Brovme, Ensign ;
James Magee, Ensign ;
John Wogan, Ensign ;
Richard Bamewall, Lieut. ;
George Talbot, Lieutenant ;
Thomas Dongan, Ensign ;
-^-^ Bulkley, Ensign;
Hugh O'Neill, Ensign ;
William Sheridan, Ensign.
COMMISSIONS WHICH PAID IN
ENGLAND.
Rowland Smith, Captain ;
John Roche, Comet.
COMMISSIONS EXCHANGED, FOB
WHICH NO FEES PAID.
Jos. Jackman, Lieutenant ;
Sir Thomas Atkins, Lieut. ;
Christopher Nugent, Lieut. ;
Toby Purcell, Major ;
Mark Talbott, Major ;
12
KING JAMES'S IKISH ARMY LIST.
James Bryan, Ensign ;
Lord Limerick, Capt. Horse ;
Matt. Bellew, Lieut. Horse ;
Silvester Mathews, Ensign ;
David Lundj, Ensign ;
Daniel O'Neill, Lieutenant ;
Phil. Terrett, Lieutenant ;
Morgan Floyd, Captain ;
Colonel Grace, Governor of
Athlone ;
Colonel Grace, Captain ;
Arundell, Captain ;
Edward Butler, Captain ;
Bandall Plunkett, Lieutenant ;
James Bryan, Ensign (ertued
in ike original) ;
John Taaffe, Captain.
king's letters delivered.
Lord Chancellor ;
Attorney General ;
Lord Lowth ;
Sir William Talbot;
Colonel Hamilton ;
Lord Netterville ;
Lord Bellew ;
Symon Luttrell;
Lord Chief Baron Rice ;
Sir Harry Lynch ;
Justice Martin ;
Lord Viscount Gallway ;
Colonel 'Moor.'
COlOflSSIONS NOT DELIVERED,
STOPPED, OR RECALLED, ETC.
Henry Sheridan, Ensign ;
Thomas Purcell, Ensign ;
John White, Lieutenant ;
Eustace White, Lieutenant ;
Lord Kilkenny- West, Capt. ;
James Butler, Comet ;
John Power, Lieutenant ;
Daniel Macnamara, Ensign ;
Hugh O' * Roirk,' Lieut. ;
William Usher, Lieutenant ;
Calla. Mc Callahan, Comet;
John Delahide, Ensign ;
Bryan, Ensign ;
Stafford, Ensign ;
Thos. Nugent, Ensign ;
Fleming, Ldeut. Horse ;
Burk, Lieut. Horse ;
Townley, Comet ;
Richard Butler, Comet ;
John Nugent, Lieut. Horse ;
Arthur Dillon, Lieut. Horse ;
Henry Dillon, Lieut. Horse ;
Roger Jeffryes, Comet.
LETTERS NOT DELIVERED.
Colonel Richard Butler ;
Dean Manby.
ADDED in another hand.
Sum due _. .-£547 2 0
Sam retmned . . _ _ 507 I 7
For return 39 6 5
For mj Lord 394 4 3
Us 73 18 4
Clerks 26 0 0
Signett Office 13 13 0
Sum, £547 2 0
KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. 13
THE NUMBER OF COMMISSIONS DEUVERED OF EACH RIND.
25 Colonels, Lieut. -Colonels, Majors, Captains, and Brigadiers.
12 Lieutenants of Horse.
8 Comets.
25 Lieutenants of Foot.
34 Ensigns."
In the April of 1687, Tyrconnel had been com-
missioned, to select influential persons throughout the
several counties in Ireland, to aid the Commissioners
of the Revenue in collecting subsidies for the support
of the state. The return of these, so appointed, as
well as the above inchoate list, were doubtless laid
before King James at Chester by Tyrconnel, when
that monarch, still King of Great Britain, France
and Ireland, devolved upon him the responsibility of
supporting his royal authority in the latter king-
dom, and of directing the zeal and energies of its
people to his service ; and, notwithstanding all they
had so recently lost in upholding the Stuarts, they
rendered to Tyrconnel, says Colonel O'Kelly, in the
" Excidium Macarioe^^ not only the number of soldiers
which he had demanded, equipped at their private cost,
but every farther aid that either their fortunes or their
influence could fiirnish." The consummation of their
labours was the Army List now presented to the public.
The copy here published is preserved in the Manu-
scripts of Trinity College, Dublin, where it is classed
F. 1, 14. It extends over thirty-four pages octavo.
On the two first are the names of all the Colonels ;
14 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
on the four following are the Rolls of the Eight Regi-
ments of Horse ; on the next four are the Rolls of
the six of Dragoons. The remaining twenty-four
record the Infantry. The officers of each company
are arranged in columns headed respectively Cap-
tains, Lieutenants, Comets or Ensigns, and Quarter-
Masters. Under that of Captains, the Colonels,
Lieutenant-Colonels, and Majors, are usually classed.
Under the others, the entries appear seriatim^ and
in line, as this list was then filled up. It bears no
date, but while, on inspecting many of the original
commissions, some few, as that of Captain George
Chamberkiin, are of December, 1688 ; and a great
number on the 8th of March, being near the close of
that year, but four days before the King's landing at
Kinsale ; others are of later appointment, as that of
James Carroll, to a Captaincy in Lord Dongan's
Dragoons, is of the 30th of July following. It would
therefore seem to have been closed, in its present
state, about the August of 1689, and before the whole
force was completed. The only point that could
militate with such an assignment of date, is the fact
of Richard Talbot being described upon it as an Earl,
whereas his patent to the Dukedom was granted on
the 10th of July in that year ; but its having been
a current and continuing muster may account for
this. On this list the Horse had the highest pay,
and were therefore classed first of the Cavalry. The
Dragoons, having to do duty on foot as well as on
horseback, were lighter troops than the Horse in these
KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. 15
times.* The three first of the Horse Regiments, v iz. :
Tyrconners, Galmoy's, and Sarsfield's, had each nine
troops with fifty-three men in each troop ; the five
last had each six troops, with the same complement oi
men in each. Three of the Dragoons, viz. : Lord
Dongan's, the first, Sir Neill O^Neill's, the second, and
Colonel Simon Luttrell's, the fourth, had each eight
troops with sixty men in each ; the remainder had
six troops in each regiment, and sixty men in each
troop.f The regiments of Infantry had thirteen com-
panies in each, and sixty-three men in each company.
The levies were conducted with such enthusiasm, that
the force in this list was raised, armed, and clothed in
less than six weeks,J and may te truly said to com-
prise scions of the whole aristocracy of Ireland at that
period, as well of the native Irish septs as of the
Anglo-Irish.
As the Colonels of the establishment are subse-
quently given, each at the head of his regiment, it
would be idle to display their names here, with the
exception of the two first, to whom no regiments are
assigned in this list, viz. : Lord Viscount Dover, and
the Duke of Berwick ; and that of Colonel Thomas
Maxwell, no detail of whose re^ment is given, but
who is fully noticed at the close of the Dragoons'
Regiments.
• Macariae Excidium, p. 441, note.
t Singer's Correspondence of Clarendon, t. 1, p. 97.
I Story's Impartial History, pp. 5 & 6.
16 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
HENRY LORD VISCOUNT DOVER,
Colonel of the First Troop of Guards.
This Henry Jennyn, brother of Lord Thomas Jer-
myn of St. Edmundsbury, was himself, in 1685,
created a peer, as Lord Jermyn of Dover ; and, in
deference to his elder brother (while he lived), was
usually styled Lord Dover, and so sworn of the
English Privy Council in 1686 ; at which period it
was rumoured he was to be appointed Lord Lieutenant
of Ireland, in place of the Earl of Clarendon.* In
1687,he was nominated a Lord of the English Treasury,
and in 1688, a short time before the king's abdication
in that country, he was especially selected and con-
firmed by his Majesty's will, executed at Whitehall
in the commencement of that year, the confidential
adviser of the Queen. He afterwards facilitated the
escape of James, and was one of the few, who accom-
panied the royal exile to France and subsequently to
Ireland. While yet at sea, in the latter movement,
he addressed a letter " to the Corporation of Castle-
haven, or any other place where the Captain (Major
General Boisselau) may land." "Gentlemen," (it
is copied from the original, in possession of the
O'Donovan) " From aboard the King of France's ship,
here upon the Irish coast for the service of his Ma-
jesty of England, with all sorts of ammunition and
* Singer's Correspondence, v. 2, pp. 10 & 25.
LOKD VISCOUNT DOVER. 17
necessaries, and myself here commanding the King's
forces on board. I send Captain la Rue and another
to learn what news you can inform us of ; therefore,
pray send us, with all speed you possibly can, all the
news you know, both of the King and the enemy's
fleet, that we may govern ourselves accordingly.
Gentlemen, your humble servant, Dover." (No date.)
In July, 1689, he was joined in commission for the
Irish Treasury with Tyrconnel, Lord Riverston, and
Sir Stephen Rice ; while his name appears in this
Army List, Colonel as above ; his Troop of Horse,
Gards du Corps^ consisting of 200 men,* but none
of his subalterns appear hereon. Viscount Dover,
not being a Peer of Ireland, had no seat in the
Parliament of 1689, and seems to have early taken
offence or distrusted James's cause ; for on the 19th
of June, 1690, eleven days before the battle of the
Boyne, he applied to Mr. Greorge Kirke, (the well-
known Major-General) " You will be much surprised
to receive a letter from me ; but, after the many
revolutions we have seen in our time, nothing is to
be wondered at." He then requests Kirke to use his
interest with Marshal de Schomberg, " to obtain a
pass for my Lady Dover, myself and the little vessel
we shall go in, and those few servants specified in the
within note, to go and stay at Ostend, till such time
as I may otherwise dispose of myself." As King
William appeared unwilling to accede to this prayer,
* Somers' State Tracts, v. 11, p. 398.
t Clarke's Correspondence, MS. T.C.D. Lett. xiy.
18 KING JAMES'S IRI£H ARMY LIST.
on account of Lord Dover being excepted out of the
Act of Indemnity, and also outlawed in AVestminster
Hall, he, on the 12th of July, after the battle of the
Boyne, wrote to obtain the interest of a Captain Fitz-
gerald, to procure a similar passport from King Wil-
liam, " to enable me to go and end my days quietly
in England, in which place I will most certainly never
more meddle with any affairs whatever, but my own
little particular ones."* Another letter of his lord-
ship, in the same collection, contains a i^erfect narra-
tive of his life, stating that he had " served King
James faithfully, since he was thirteen years old, till
the French thought fit he should not do it any
longer." From the context, it would appear that
Lord Dover had incurred some taunts from the
French allies, and, possibly, displeasure from James.
He was soon afterwards allowed to transport himself
to Flanders, till a fitting time came for his admittance
to England, whither Lady Dover and her servants had
a free pass.
He died on the 6th April, 1708, at Cheveley in
Leicestershire ; but his remains were interred, at his
own desire, in the Carmelite Convent of Bruges,
where his funeral monument ranks him "a Lieu-
tenant-General in the army. Colonel of a troop of King
James's Horse Guards, and Lord Lieutenant of the
county of Cambridge. "f On his death, without issue,
♦ Southwell MSS. Catal., p. 140.
t Nichol's Top. and Gen., part 12, p. 498.
THE DUKE OF BERWICK. 19
his title became extinct, and his estates devolved
upon his nieces, the daughters of the aforesaid Baron
Jermyn of St. Edmundsbury.
THE DUKE OF BERWICK,
Colonel of the Second Troop of Guards.
Such was the title, which, in deference to the bor-
der town, that had for centuries been the great object
of many a hard-fought . day, James the Second, the
son of a Scotto-English monarch, conferred upon
James Fitz-James, his eldest but illegitimate son by
Arabella Churchill, sister of John Churchill, after-
wards the renowned Duke of Marlborough. He was
bom in 1671. In 1686 he distinguished himself at
the siege of Buda, and in March, 1687, was created
Baron of Bosworth, Earl of Tinmouth, and Duke
of Berwick ; his father being then King of Eng-
land. He was the companion of that father,
when, having escaped from the Guards at Rochester,
he crossed to France in a small boat, and landed at
Ambleteuse, at six o'clock on Christmas morning
(1688). The Duke was instantly despatched thence,
by the Royal Exile, to Louis XIV., then at Ver-
sailles, to pray an asylum in his kingdom. "J'en
fus recu," says the Duke, in his narrative of that in-
terview, " avec toute la politesse et Tamiti^ imagina-
bles ; et il ^toit ais^ de voir par ses discours, que son
c2
20 KLNG JAM£S'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
coeur parloit autant que sa langue."* Confiding on
that reception, King James embarked for Ireland,
where, on his arriving and learning the state of Ulster,
he ordered Berwick off to strengthen General Richard
Hamilton on the east side of the Ban, in his design
on Coleraine, as well as to sound the state of political
feeling in Deny. Of this he formed a very mistaken
notion, writing as he did in April, 1689, to his Royal
Sire, advising him that it was the opinion of all the
General Officers, that " if his Majesty would but
show himself before that town, it would undoubtedly
surrender." The expectation was, however, ill-
grounded ; and, on the avowed determination of the
garrison to hold out, James, who had gone before the
town in this assurance, returned discountenanced to
Dublin, to make the necessary arrangements for hold-
ing his parliament.! Berwick remained with but
6,000 men, and only six guus, opposed to a garrison
of 10,000 men, with from twenty to thirty pieces of
cannon, and an English fleet of thirty sail in the
river, with arms, ammunition, provisions, and three
regiments on board, under the command of Major
General Kirke, commissioned to relieve the place.J
While the siege was going on, the Duke encountered
a large body of the Enniskilliners ; on whom, how-
ever, he made no impression. After the raising of
the siege, being stationed at Newiy with 1700 foot
* * Memoir' in Clarke's James II.
t Clarke's Life of James II., v. 2, p. 332.
t O'Callaghan on the Excidium Macariffi, pp. 320-1.
THE DUKE OF BERWICK. 21
and dragoons, and two troops of horse ; and, designing
to defend that pass against Schomberg, who had
landed a few days previously at Carrickfergus, he
is said by Story,* to have sent a letter by a trumpe-
ter to that Marshal on the 1st of September, he being
then in Belfast. This communication, being directed
only to ' Count ' Schomberg, was returned unopened,
that officer saying his Royal Master had honoured
him with the title of Duke, and therefore the letter
was not to him.f At the close of the same year,
(1689) in February, Berwick meditated taking pos-
session of Belturbet, " with the expectation of being
able to make excursions thence into the enemy's
quarters all the winter ; but Wolseley, King Wil-
liam's Colonel, suspecting his design, marched out
of the town with a considerable body of Horse and
Foot, when meeting Berwick's forces at Tullaghmon-
gan, near Cavan, he forthwith attacked them ; and,
although the Duke behaved himself with great con-
duct and bravery, having his horse shot under him,
yet was he worsted in the action, and the town was
fired by his enemy."
Berwick was afterwards at the battle of the Boyne,
where the troop under his command consisted of
two hundred strong. There also " his horse was shot
under him, and, as he lay for some time amongst the
enemy, he was rode over and ill-bruised, until by the
help of a trooper he was got off again."! After that
* Impartial Review, part 1, p. 11.
X Clarke's James II. v. 2, p. 400.
t Idem.
22 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
battle the Duke rallied, at Brazeel near Dublin, about
7,000 infantry ; of which he sent to acquaint his
Royal father in that city, requesting that a convoy of
Horse and Dragoons should be sent out to enable him
to come in. The king accordingly ordered out six
troops of LuttrelFs Dragoons, and three of Aber-
com's Horse to his relief ; but night had dissolved
the force which Berwick hoped to keep together —
they had all dispersed. During the first siege of
Limerick, (August, 1690) by King William in person,
" the Irish Cavalry, 3,500 strong, commanded by the
Duke of Berwick, guarded the right bank of the Shan-
non, and prevented the English from investing or even
sending detachments to that side, although the river
was fordable in many places."* When that siege was
abandoned, and Tyrconnel passed over to his King to
France, " he," writes Colonel O'Kelly in the Excidium
Macarice (p. 72), " established a new form of govern-
ment in his absence, never before heard of in Ireland ;
twelve * Senators ' were named to manage the civil
affairs, the major part being new-interest men, without
whose concurrence the rest could not act. The
army he placed under the command of the Duke of
Berwick, and, in regard his youth gave him little ex-
perience, (he had not then attained 21 years) he ap-
pointed a select council of officers to direct him ;
the Duke having " as Colonel O'Kelly, who was no
friendly commemorator of Tyrconnel, insinuates, " his
O'Conors Military Memoirs, p. 117.
THE DUKE OF BERWICK. 23
private directions to permit no person of quafity to
come out of Ireland in his absence, who would be
likely to oppose his representations at the Court of St.
Germains."
The vessel, that was to take Tyrconnel out of
Galway, was scarcely out of sight, when the young
Duke, at the head of 4,000 foot, 2000 men at arms,
and as many light horse, passed the Shannon and
attacked the Castle of Birr ; but " on an alarm of the
enemy's advance to relieve the place, he decamped,
and never stopped till he crossed the Shannon back
again, returning with his troops into Connaught ;
having, (adds Colonel O'Kelly) by that successless
attempt and his shameful retreat, discouraged the
army, and disheartened the whole nation of Ireland."
O'Conor, a later historian of the military memoirs of
this country, says, " Berwick's operations, during the
absence of Talbot, were directed by the Hamiltons,
conducted without skill, and disheartened the Irish J^:*
He was of course attainted, but not until five years
after the close of that war, of which he has left the
best account, embodied in Clarke's Life of James the
Second.f In 1693, Berwick, who had passed to France
afl«r the surrender of Limerick, was taken prisoner in
the engagement near Liege, by his uncle, the Duke of
Marlborough ; and in 1695 he married the widow of
Sarsfield, who, as hereafter mentioned, fell at Landen
in 1693. She was the lady Honora de Burgo, second
* O'Conor 8 Military Memoirs, p. 130.
t Idem, p. 237.
24 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
daughter of William, the seventh Earl of Clanricarde.
In tiie chapel of the Castle of St. G^rmains the cere-
mony took place, which she survived but three years,
dying of consumption at Montpelier.
In 1696, when James, under a delusive impression
that the Prince of Orange's affairs began not to have
so favourable an aspect as formerly, meditated ob-
taining forces from the French King for invading
England; the Duke of Berwick was secretly sent over
to London to sound the public feeling, — again with ill
success. The continent was destined to be the theatre
of his own fixture actions and renown. The brigaded
Regiment of Foot, formed in France and styled by his
name was distinguished in the Italian campaign of
1701 ; when, with Galmoy's, Burke's and Dillon's, and
with Sheldon's Horse, it formed part of the army that
was led on by the Duke of Savoy at the engagement near
Chiari. In 1703, it was incorporated in the Brigade
of Piedmont,* and actively engaged in its conflicts, f
In 1704, the three Regiments, Berwick's, Dillon's, and
Galmoy's, mounted the trenches at Vercelli, Ivrea, and
Verrua in Italy. In the May of that year, military
operations commenced in the Spanish Peninsula, by
the entrance of a Spanish and French army under
King Philip and the Duke of Berwick respectively,
at Salvatierra. In 1705, Berwick's Regiment, together
with Burke's and Fitzgerald's (formerly Albemarle's),
was engaged in all the battles which marked the
♦ O'Conor s Military Memoirs, p. 262. t Idem, p. 265, 273.
THE DUKE OF BERWICK 25
valour and skill of the two great coramandeps, Eugene
and Vendome, who headed the united armies.* The
Brigade, thus concentrated, was called Burke's, com-
manded as it was by Brigadier-Greneral Ulick Burke,
and did wonderful execution at the battle on the Re-
torto and Adda, which O'Conor describes as " the
fiercest contest that occurred during the seventeenth
century." A second battalion, which was raised at
Arras for Berwick's Regiment at the latter period, was
ordered to Spain, and in 1706 performed important
services theref, as it did at the battle of Almanza, in
April, 1707. Berwick himself on the latter occasion
" led his cavalry to the charge, and utterly broke the
mixed line of the allies, so that the fate of the day re-
mained no longer doubtful.'* J "His presence of
mind," adds O'Conor, " was admirable ; as cool, as
calm as he would be at a review, he provided for
every emergency ; wherever the line yielded, he
brought up troops from other posts to sustain it ; he
was every where, leading on, encouraging and exhort-
ing the Spaniards in their own, and the French and
Irish in the respective languages of their countries."
Immediately after this splendid victory, which turned
the tide of war against the allies, he was made a
Spanish Grandee by Philip the Fiflh. In the same
year, at the siege of Lerida, " one of the strongest
fortresses in Europe, the Regiments of Burke, Dillon,
* O'Conor's Military Memoirs, p. 299.
t Idem, p. 318. J Idem, p. 829.
26 KINO JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
and Berwick were distinguished ; on the 4th of
October, their trenches were opened, Berwick's,
Burke's, and Dillon's Regiments mounted them, the
fortress and citadel surrendered." * In 1708, two bat-
talions of Berwick's, widi Grafton's " Irish Dragoons,"
and Bulkeley's Irish Regiment of Foot in the service
of Spain, formed part of the besieging army at Tortosa.
On this occasion, " the Regiment of Berwick suffered
severely, having mounted the trenches several nights ;
the Lieutenant-Colonel and several officers and men
were killed ; and, after twenty-one days' siege, the
place surrendered upon honourable terms." f In the
July of this year, Berwick himself, being encamped
near Douay, received a letter from his illustrious op-
ponent and uncle, the Duke of Marlborough, wherein
the latter, perfectly recognizing the kindred, says, ' You
may be sure the difference of parties will not hinder
me from having that friendship for you that becomes
me towards my relations.' J In the early part of 1709,
Burke's, Dillon's, and Berwick's Regiments served in
Spain under the Marshal de Biron ; as they did in
1711 in Savoy, under the Marshal Duke of Berwick ;
but, " from inferiority of forces, he was obliged to
abandon that country, and confine himself to guard
the passes of the Alps into Dauphiny. It is to his
character and achievements at this period, and the war
in which he encountered his own uncle, the Duke of
Marlborough, that Montesquieu thus alludes, " Telle
* O'Conor s Military Memoirs, p. 335.
t Idem, p. 337. J Murray's Marlborough Desp., v. 4, p. 1 13.
THE DUKE OF BERWICK. 27
fiit Tetoile de cette Maison de Churchill, qu'il en sor-
tit deux hommes, dont Tun, dans le meme temps,
fut destine a ebranler, et Tautre a soutenir, les deux
grandes monarchies de TEurope."
Berwick was killed at the siege of Philpsburg in
Baden, 12th June, 1734 ; leaving by his aforesaid
wife, the Lady Honora de Burgh (who died in 1698,
and was buried at Pontoise, near Paris) one son,
James Edward Francis, who was created by Philip
the Fifth, Duke of Liria and Gherica, and a Grandee
of Spain of the first class ; he married Catherine, the
daughter and heiress of Pierre Duke of Veragas orVeras
Aquas in Spain ; in whose right he also bore that title ;
and, being sent ambassador from Philip to his son Don
Carlos, King of the Two Sicilies, he died at Naples in
1738, leaving issue by her, two sons, the eldest James,
Duke of Berwick and Liria, Grandee of Spain, and
General in the Spanish service, (who was father of
Charles B. Pascal Janvier Fitzjames, Marquis of
Jamaica, baptised 1751 ;) and the second son, Duke
Peter Fitzjames, called in Spain Don Pedro, who was
an admiral in that service. He married the heiress of
Castelblanco, and had issue. The old Duke of Ber-
wick had, on the decease of his first wife, married Miss
Buckley, one of the maids of Honor to Queen Mary
d'Este, and by her had five children : James, who died
without issue in the lifetime of his father ; Francis,
who rose to eminence in the Church ; Henry, who also
entered into holy orders ; Charles, who succeeded to
the Dukedom of Fitzjames in France, and from whom
28 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
the present Duke is descended ; and Maria, married
to the Duke of Mirandola, a Spanish Grandee of the
first class.* The English Dukedom of Berwick had
been forfeited on the attainder, though the title was
used bj the great Duke in his life-time, and sometimes
by his descendants, who continued to be successively
Colonels of his Brigade, until it was disbanded
at the Revolution. The Spanish branch still retains
its rank and estates.
At the battle of Ypres, in 1745, the still Irish names
of the killed in Berwick's Regiment are Captains
Burke, Nangle, Anthony, Cooke, and Higgins ; while,
in the list of the wounded, appear Captain Colclough,
and Lieutenants Plunket, Carroll, Mac Carthy, and
Dease.f
In 1792, there were in garrison at London, of
Berwick's ci-devarU Regiment, Lieutenant-Colonels
O'More and Mac Dermott.
Captains: — O'Connor, Bryan OToole, Richard
O'Toole, — O'Gormican, — Cruise, — Reed, — Egan,
William O'Mara, Thaddeus O'Mara, John Geoghegan,
— Hurly, — Tuite, — Swinton, — Delany, — ^Gregory,
and Byrne.
LietUenants : — D'Alton, — Kavanagh, — Forbes, —
Grace, — Mulhall, — O'Kennedy, — Garrett Fitzsimons,
— Blake, Richard O'Byrne, — D'Evereux, — Geraghty,
* Jesse's Memoirs of the Court of England, v. 4, p. 490.
t (rent. Mag. ad ann. p. 276.
counties' assessment. 29
— Doyle, — Nagle, Patt Piersse, and Gerard Piersse.
Sub'Lieutenants : — O'Sullivan, — MacCarthy, Pat
Jennings, Luke Allen, Andrew Elliott, Morris
Cameron. While on the French Army List of 1792,
the staff of this ci-devant French Eegiment numbered
still in the French service : —
Colonel — O'Connor.
Lieutenant-Colonels: — Hurly and Shee.
Captains : — Swanton, — Hussey, — MacCormick, —
Doyle, — Koberts, — Nagle, — Delany, Martin Hart,
Andrew Mac Donough, — Beed, — Burke, Marcus
Laffan, and — OTlynn.
Lieutenants : Luke Allen, — Merle, — D'Alton, —
Burke, — Meagher, — Fleming, — Prior, — Nagle, —
Ravel, — Houdart, — Derenzy, Eugene Chancel, and
Shee.
Sub-Lieutenant — Nestor Chancel.
This seems the most apt place to introduce the
genealogical evidences, that arise from a commission
of the 10th April, 1690, which King James issued for
applotting £20,000 per month on personal estates
and the benefit of trade and traffic, " according to the
ancient custom of this Kingdom used in time of dan-
ger." Of this tax he appointed the following assessors
in the several counties, &c.
For the City and County of Dublin ; The Lord
Mayor and Sheriff of the city for the time being.
Garret Dillon, Esq. Recorder ; Simon Luttrell, Esq.
30 KING JAMES'S I&ISH ARMY LIST.
Governor of the city ; Sir Thomas Hackett, Sir Wil-
liam Ellis, Thomas Whitehead, Lewis Doe, and Thomas
Browne, Esq. Their applotment on the city to be
£5,000 for the three months.
For the County of Dublin; The High Sheriff for
the time being ; Simon Luttrell, Esq. Lord Lieutenant
of the County ; Colonel Patrick Sarsfield, John Tal-
bot of Belgard, Esq. Captain Robert Arthur, Captain
Kobert Russell, James Hackett, Esq. Christopher
Massy, Esq. and Ignatius Purcell, Esq. Their applot-
ment to be £2,391 6s. 9d. for the three months.
For the County of Kildare ; The High Sheriff j9ro
temp. ; Sir Patrick Trant, Baronet ; Charles White,
Esq. Colonel Charles Moore, Wm. Talbot, John Wogan,
Francis Leigh, Esqs. the Sovereign of the Naas pro
temp, and Edmund Fitzgerald, Esq. Their applot-
ment, £1,643 5s. 3d. for the three months.
For the County of Carlow ; The High Sheriff /?ro
temp. ; Colonel Dudley Bagnall, John Bagot Junior,
Patrick Wall, Pierce Bryan, Marcus Baggot, Hubert
Kelly, Esqs. the Sovereign of Carlow pro temp, and
William Coolie, Esq. Their applotment, £726 19s. 3d.
for the three months.
For the King's County ; The High Sheriff pro
temp. Garret Moore, Esq. Colonel Francis Oxburgh,
Terence Coghlan, John Coghlan of Tullamore, Edward
Baggott, Owen Carroll, Henry Oxburgh, Garret
Trant, Esqs. Their applotment to be £860 17s. 6d.
for the three months.
For the Queeris County; The High Sheriff />ro
counties' assessment. 31
temp. Sir Patrick Trant, Baronet, Sir Gregory Byrne,
Edward Morris, Oliver Grace, Thady Fitzpatrick,
Daniel Doran, John Weaver and John Warren, Esqs.
Their applotment, £956 10s. 9d. for the three
months.
For tlie County of Longford ; The High Sheriff,
pro temp.^ Oliver Fitzgerald, Esq., Thomas Nugent of
Colamber, John Nugent of Killasonna, Eobert Sans,
Francis Ferrall, Robert Farrell, and Robert Dowling,
Esqs. Their applotment to be £573 18s. 3d.
For the County of Meath ; The High Sheriff pro
temp.j Sir Patrick Bamewall, Sir William Talbot,
Baronet, Sir John Fleming, Thomas Bellew, Henry
Draycott, John Hatch, Adam Crane, and Richard
Barnewall, Esqs. Their applotment, £2,793 2s. for
the three months.
For the County of Westmeath ; The High Sheriff joro
temp. Garret Nugent of Dysart, Edmund Malone,
Garret Nangle, William Handcock, James Dease,
Keadagh Geoghegan, (Jeorge Peyton, and Richard
Fitzgerald, Esqs. Their applotment, £1,434 16s.
for the three months.
For the City of Kilkenny ; The Mayor, Recorder^
and Sheriffs pro temp.^ Walter Lawless, Henry Archer,
Luke Dormer, James Rafter, and John Shee, Esqs.
Their applotment, £190 17s. 6d. for the three months.
For the County of Kilkenny ; The High Sheriff
pro temp. Colonel Walter Butler, Colonel Edward
Butler, John Grace, Marcus Shee, Harvey Morris, Esqs.
The Sovereign of Callan j9ro temp. Edmund Blanchville,
32 KING JAMESES IRISH ARMY LIST.
Esq. and the Portreef of Gowran pro temp. Their
applotment, £1,932 4s. 3d. for the three months.
For the County of Weaford ; The High Sheriff
pro temp. Colonel Walter Butler, Patrick Colclough,
Walter Talbot, William Howe, Patrick Lambert,
Anthony Talbot, Matthew Forde, and Patrick White,
Esqs. Their applotment, £1,434 16s. for the three
months.
For the County of Wicklow ; The High Sheriff
pro temp. Francis Toole, Wm. Talbot of Fassaroe, Ph.
Cowdell, Wm. Wolverston, William Hoey, Cromwell
Wingfield, Escjuires, and Thomas Byrne, Burgess of
Wicklow. Their applotment, £688 14s. 3d. for the
three months.
For the County of Louth ; The High Sheriff pro
temp. Sir Patrick Bellew, John Cheever, Roger Gernon,
Esqs. John Babe, Henry Townley, Patrick Dowdall,
and Nicholas Gernon, Esquires. Their applotment,
£994 16s. for the three months.
For the Town of Drogheda ; The Mayor, Recorder,
and Sheriflfe pro temp. Thomas Peppard Fitz-George,
Christopher Peppard Fitz-Ignatius, Patrick Plunket,
Alderman, and John Moore. Their applotment,
£210 9s. 3d. for the three months.
For the County of Limerick ; The High Sheriff
pro temp. Sir Joseph Fitzgerald, Dominick Roche,
John Bourk of Cahirmoyle, John Rice of Hospital,
Edward Rice, John Baggott Senior, Henry Wray,
Thaddeus Quinn, and George Evans, Esqs. Their ap-
plotment, £1,932 Is. 3d. for the three months.
C0UNTI£8' ASSESSMENT. 33
For the City of Limerick ; The Mayor, Eecorder,
and Sheriflfe pro temp. Sir James Galway, Baronet,
John McNamara, John Eice Fitz-Edward, Robert
Herman, and John Leonard, Esqs. Their applotment,
£382 12s. 3d. for three months.
For the County of Cork ; The High Sheriff pro
temp. Daniel O'Donovan, Daniel O'Sullivan Bear,
Daniel Mc Carthy Beagh, Nicholas Brown, Esq. Sir
John Mead, Knight, Sir James Cotter, Knight, Miles
Coursey, Charles Mc Carthy alias Mc Donogh, Edward
Fitzgerald of Ballyverter, Dominick Sarsfield, David
Nagle, John Galway, Martin Supple, Esqs. the Mayor,
Recorder, and SheriflS of the City of Cork pro temp.
Andrew Morrogh, Stephen Gold, John Longan, Ed-
ward Gough, Esqs., the Mayor of Youghal pro temp.
the Sovereign of Kinsale pro temp, the Sovereign of
Mallow pro temp, the Sovereign of Charleville pro
temp, and John Power of Kellballer, Esq. Their
applotment, £683 lis. for tlie three months.
For the City of Waterford ; The High Sheriff
pro temp. J the Earl of Tyrone, Lieutenant-Colonel
Thomas Nugent, Matthew How, John Nugent, Richard
Marsfield, Thomas Sherlock, Pierce Walsh, and Nicho-
las Power, Esqs. Their applotment for the three
months, £1,262 12s. 9d.
For the County and City of Waterford ; The
Mayor, Recorder, and Sheriffs pro temp.^ Richard
Fitz-G^rald, Michael Porter, Michael Head, and James
White, Esqs. Their applotment, £382 12s. 3d. for
the three months.
34 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
For the County of Clare ; The High Sheriff/>ro temp.^
Sir Donogh O'Brien, John Mc Namara of Cratelogh,
Donogh O'Brien of Duogh, Daniel Mc Namara, John
Mc Namara of Moyriff, James Aylmer, Florence
Mc Namara, Samuel Boyton, John Mc Namara, Col-
lector, and the Provost of Ennis pro temp. Their ap-
plotment, £1,798 5s. 6d; for the three months.
For the County of Kerry ; The High Sheriff pro
temp.j Colonel Mc Carthy More, William Brown,
Esq. Sir Thomas Crosby, Knight ; Stephen Eice,
Daniel O'Donoghue, Ambrose Moore, Esqs.; the
Sovereign of Dingle pro temp, the Provost of Tralee
pro temp, and Andrew Elliott. Their applotment,
£1,052 4s. 9d. for the three months
For the County of Tipperary^ including Holycross ;
The High SheriflF/>r(? temp.^ Colonel Nicholas Purcell,
Major James Tobin, John Cantwell, James Kearney,
Thaddeus Meagher, Terence Magrath, James Hackett,
Ambrose -Mandeville, the Mayor of Cashel pro temp.
the Mayor of Clonmel pro temp. Edmund Ryan,
Cormick Egan, Nicholas White Fitz-Henry, Esquires,
the Sovereign of Feathard, and Peter Dalton, Esq.
Their applotment, £4,208 16s. for the three months.
For the County of Donegal ; The High SheriflF
pro temp.^ Captain Manus O'Donnell, Henry Nugent,
John Nugent, Daniel Mc Swine, Captain Daniel
O'Donnell, and Captain Hugh O'Donnell. Their ap-
plotment, £1,951 7s. for the three months.
For the County of Tyrone ; The High SheriflF jK>ro
temp.^ the Provost of Strabane pro temp, the Provost
counties' assessment, 35
of Dungannon pro temp. Captain Terence Donnelly,
Patrick Donnelly, Hugh Quinn, and John Clements,
Esquires. Their applotment, £1,492 4s. for the three
months.
For the County of Fermanagh ; The High SheriflF
pro temp.j Constantine Maguire, Edmund Oge
Maguire, Bryan Maguire, Constantine Oge Maguire,
Philip Maguire, and Captain Thomas Maguire. Their
applotment, £1,013 18s. 9d. for the three months.
For the County of Cavan ; The High Sheriff pro
temp. Captain Edmund Reilly, Luke Reilly, Philip
Reilly, Philip Oge Reilly, Francis Bourke, and Thomas
Fleming, Esqs. Their applotment, £1090 9s 6d. for
the three months.
For the County of Monaghan ; The High Sheriff
pro temp. Colonel Art Oge McMahon, Captain Hugh
McMahon, Captain Bryan McMahon, Captain Farrell
Ward, Doctor Henry Cassidy, and Alex. MacCabe.
Their applotment, £1052 4s. for three months.
For the County of Antrim^ including the town of Car-
rickfergus ; The High Sheriff pro temp. Sir Neill
O'Neill, Cormuck O'Neill, RandaD McDonnell, Thady
O'Hara, Francis Stafford, and Rowland White, Esqs.
Their applotment, £2257 8s. 9d. for three months.
For the County Doum ; the High Sheriff jt?ro temp.
Phelim Magenis, Murtagh Magenis, Rowland Savage,
John Savage, John McArtan, and Toole O'Neill. Their
applotment, £2011 14s. 3d. for three months.
For the County of Armagh ; The High Sheriff jt>ro
temp, the Sovereign of Armagh pro temp. Colonel
D 2
36 KINO JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
Owen O'NeiU, Turlough O'NeiU, Paul O'NeiU, Hugh
Buy O'Neill, and Robert Martin, Esqs. Their applot-
ment, £1052 4s. for three months.
For the County of Londonderry and tJie City of
Londonderry and the Town and Barony of Coleraine ;
the Mayor and Sheriffs of Londonderry pro tenip.
Cormuck O'Neill, Conn O'Neill, Art O'Hegan, and
John O'Hegan, Esqs. Their applotment, £1473 Is.
3d. for three months.
For the County and tlie Town of Galway ; The
Mayor, Recorder and Sheriff j^ro temp. Stephen Deane,
Peter Kirwan, John Bodkin, James Browne, Collector ;
John Kirwan, Thomas Revett, and George Stanton,
Esqs. Their applotment, £325 4s. 6d. for the three
months.
For the County of Galway ; The High Sheriff joro
temp. Sir Ulick Bourke, Roger O'Shaughnessy, Richard
Bourke of Derryraghaghna, Nicholas French, Oliver
Martin, Dermot Daly, Laughlin Daly, James Donel-
lan, Richard Blake, and Miles Bourke of Clougheroge,
Esqs. Their applotment, £2410 9s. 6d. for three
months.
For the County of Roscommon ; The High Sheriff
pro temp. Colonel Charles Kelly, Captain Theobald
Dillon, Bryan Fallon, Roger McDermott, Cormuck
McDermott, and the Portreeve of Roscommon pi^o
temp. Their applotment, £1501 15s. 3d. for three
months.
For the County of Sligo ; The High Sheriff pro
temp. Colonel Oliver O'Gara, Henry Croflton, David
counties' assessment. 37
Bond, Charles O'Hara, John Crofton, James French,
John Brett, Esqs., and the Sovereign of Sligo pro temp.
Their applotment, £1186 2s. for three months.
For the County of Antrim ; The High Sheriff jK>ro
temp. Gerald Kean, Esq., Colonel Henry O'Neill, Cap-
tain John Reynolds, Bryan Greoghegan, Thady Roddy,
Lieutenant Jeffry O'Rourke. Their applotment, £688
14s. 3d. for three months.
For the County of Mayo ; The High Sheriff pro
temp. Colonel Garret Moore, Colonel Henry Dillon,
Colonel John Browne, Lieutenant-Colonel Walter
Bourke, George Browne, Esq. Captain Thomas Bourke,
Captain John Bermingham, and John Fitzgerald.
Their applotment, £1555 14s. 3d. for the three
months.
With all powers and instructions for collecting same.
Date^ 10th April, 1690 ; sixth of our reign.*
ACCOUNT OF THE GENERAL AND FIELD
OFFICERS OF KING JAMES'S ARMY,
Out of the Muster RoUs^ 2nd. June^ 1690.
Duke of Tyrconnel, Captain-General.
Duke of Berwick, Lieutenant-General.
Richard Hamilton, Lieutenant-General.
Count Lauzun, General of the French.
Monsieur Lery alias Geraldine, Lieutenant-General.
Dominick Sheldon, Lieutenant-General of the Horse.
Patrick Sarsfield, Major-General.
• Harris's MSS. vol. 10, p. 166, &c.
38 KING JAMES'8 IRISH ARMY LIST.
Monsieur Boiseleau, Major-General.
Anthony Hamilton, Major-General.
' Wahup. '
Thomas Maxwell, Brigadier.
John Hamilton, Brigadier.
Will Dorrington, Brigadier.
Solomon Slater, Muster-Master-G^neral.
Robert Fitzgerald, Comptroller of the Mustt^rs.
Sir Richard Nangle, [Nagle] Secretary at War.
Sir Henry Bond, Receiver-General.
Louis Doe, Receiver-General.
Sir Michael Creagh, Paymaster-General.
Felix O'Neill, Advocate-General.
Dr. Archbold, Physician to the State.
Patrick Archbold, Chirurgeon-General.
This classification of the Field Officers was taken by
Dr. King, (State of the Protestants^ App, p. 67, etc.)
from the Muster Rolls drawn up subsequent to the
date of this Army List. It is followed in King, by a
similar detail of the Field Officers of each Regiment,
and is also given in Story's History of the Campaign ;
(Pt. ii. p. 30.) Wherever these names or commissions
differ from what appear on the ' List,' the variance is
noted in the work ; while it is to be observed that
the Illustrations of Families are given respectively, at
the mention of that representative thereof, who ranks
highest on the Roll ; and there it is proposed to collect
particulars of such others of the name, as are recorded
in commission on other Regiments. The Index will
mark the especial places of Notices.
KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. 39
KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
Regiments of Horse.
1. Richard, Earl of Tyrconnel's.
2. Lord Galmoy's.
3. Colonel Patrick Sarsfield's.
4. Lord Abercorn's.
5. Colonel Henry Luttrell's.
6. Colonel Hugh Sutherland's.
7. Colonel John Parker's.
8. Colonel Nicholas Purcell's.
40
KING JAMES'S IRISH ARHT LIST.
REGIMENTS OF HORSE.
RICHARD, EARL OF TTRC0NNEL8.
Citfitains.
Comets,
The Colonel.
Thomas Beatagh.
Peter Caanooe.
Dominick Sheldon,
Edmund BuUer.
John Brjan.
Lieut-Colonel.
FnmcisMean,
Major.
John Boch.
Edmund Nangle.
James Furlong.
John Arthur.
George Bamewall.
Edmund Hamej.
Mich
Walter Bellew.
Edmund Keating.
Thomas Bourke.
Ger.
CharieaKing.
James Butler.
Robert Nugent
Mor
Kidiolas Cnsack.
Tho
John Talbot,
NidiolasBamewalL Nioholaa Taaffe.
Ric
Belgaid.
The deficiencies, in the list of the above Quarter-masters, arise from the
mutilation of the ori^nal manuscript.
tyrconnel's horse. 41
RICHARD TALBOT, EARL OF TTRCONNEL.
The achievements of this noble family are em-
blazoned in the history of every civilized nation, and,
like most of the English Aristocracy, they derive their
origin from Normandy, claiming, as their ancestors in
far back time, the Talbots, Barons of Clueville in the
District of Caux. In 1066, Hugh and Richard
Talbot are named amongst the Knights who espoused
the cause of William the Conqueror, and as such they
appear in Bromton's List and in the ancient 'Chronicle
of Normandy.' The lines into which they branched
in England are fiilly set forth in the History of the
County of Dublin^ p. 198, etc.
Richard and Robert Talbot, having accompanied
Henry the Second in the invasion of Ireland, the for-
mer had a grant of the Lordship of Malahide, in the
County of Dublin, which has continued in his descen-
dants to the present day. His namesake was Arch-
bishop of Dublin in 1262. In 1311, John Talbot
was summoned to attend the Parliament of Kilkenny ;
and in 1315, Richard Talbot, the lineal descendant in
the fourth degree of the first Richard, distinguished him-
self under the Lord de Bermingham on the occasion of
Edward Brace's invasion of this country. In 1373 and
1375, Sir Thomas Talbot of Malahide was summoned
to Irish Parliaments ; and in 1378, Reginald Talbot
was Sheriff of the County of Dublin, at which time
branches of the family were established in the
42 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
Counties ofCarlow, Kilkenny, Louth, Meath, and
Wexford. In 1379, Richard Talbot of Malahide was
summoned to a great council at Baltinglas, and he
also was afterwards Sheriff of the county of Dublin.
In 1414, the renowned Sir John Talbot, Lord Fur-
nival, after those exploits in France which the inspi-
rations of Shakspere have even more immortalised, was
constituted Viceroy of Ireland. In 1443, his brother,
theretofore Lord Chancellor of Ireland, was appointed
Archbishop of Dublin ; and in 1447, his son, who
had succeeded to the title of Lord Funiival, was also
named Lord Chancellor of Ireland.
On the attainders of 1642 appear the names of
John Talbot of Castletown, County of Kildare, Clerk ;
Gerard Talbot of Naas, Gilbert and Gerald Talbot of
Carton, Matthew of Templeogue, George of Malahide,
Clerk; John and William Talbot also of Malahide;
Thomas of Poerston, County Dublin ; James of
Robertstown, County Meath, clerk ; James of Athboy,
Merchant ; and Sir Robert Talbot, styled of Castle-
^allagh, County Wicklow, Baronet. The latter was, in
1665, under the provision of the Act of Explanation,
restored to his mansion seat, and 2,000 acres, if he
were seized of so much on the 21st Oct. 1642 ; if not,
then only to as much as he was seized of He was
the elder brother of the Richard Talbot at present
under consideration, who was the fifth son of William
Talbot, a Barrister, by Alison NetterviUe (who died
in 1633). "They," writes Lord Clarendon (who was
TyrconneFs brother-in-law, and here alludes to the sons
ttrconnel's horse. 43
of said William Talbot, " were all of an Irish family,
but of ancient English extraction, which had always
inhabited within that circle that was called the Pale,
which, being originally an English Plantation, was in
so many years for the most part degenerated into the
manners of the Irish, and rose and mingled with them
in the late rebellion ; and of this family there were
two distinct branches, who had competent estates, and
lived for many descents in the rank of gentlemen of
quality ; and these brothers were all the sons or grand-
sons of one who was a Judge in Ireland, and esteemed a
learned man. The eldest was Sir Robert Talbot, who
was by much the best. The second, Peter, was a
Jesuit, who had been very troublesome to the King
abroad, but afterwards, on the Restoration, rose into
Royal favour. The third, Gilbert, was called Colonel,
for some conmiand he had against the King ; he also
had been with the King in Flanders, and was looked
upon as a man of courage, having fought a dvd or
two with stout men. The fifth was * Dick ' Talbot." *
This last individual, the future Earl of Tyroonnel,
bom to no inheritance but his talent, obtained a com-
mission in the ' Irish ' army after the insurrection of
1641, and served during the ensuing Civil War,
under the command of his own nephew. Sir Walter
Dongan. He afterwards went to Spain with his
troops, exiled by Cromwell, and thence to Flanders,
following the fortune of the exiled Stuarts. He there
distinguished himself by numerous acts of bravery,
♦ Clarendon's Life of Himself, vol. 2, p. 362.
44 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
and had been a volunteer in the famous naval engage-
ment between Van Tromp and the Duke of YorL By
his handsome figure, insinuating address and chival-
rous loyalty, he ingratiated himself with that Prince,
and, on the Restoration, was enabled to purchase
large estates in Ireland. When in 1670 the Irish
cavaliers, who had suffered in their assertion of the
Royal cause, sought to press upon the attention of
Charles the Second their losses and privations,
Colonel Richard Talbot was their chosen advocate.
Their petition, signed by Lords Westmeath, Mount-
Garrett, Kingsland, Dongan, and Trimlcston, and a
large body of gentlemen, on behalf of themselves and
the Roman Catholics of Ireland, though a well merited
appeal, was considered however an assault on vested
interests, and in truth amounted to almost a Repeal of
the Act of Settlement. Too powerful interests were
awake to maintain that measure, and the lapse of
years, the succession of families, and the transfer of
property have established its conveyances down to the
present day. In this his ardour to advance the claims
of his Catholic countrymen, Talbot incurred the jea-
lousy of the Duke of Ormonde, and actually applied
such opprobrious language to that nobleman, that he,
as Dr. Currie writes, " waiting on the King, inquired
whether he should put off his doublet to fight with
Dick Talbot."
In the attack made by the Dutch in 1672 on the
English fleet in Solebay, this Colonel was taken
prisoner. In six years after, he was seized in the gal-
tyrconnel's horse. 45
lery of the Castle of Dublin, and committed to close
confinement ; his brother, the before mentioned Peter
Talbot, then the Eoman Catholic Archbishop of
Dublin, being at that time also imprisoned there,
under the suspicion of the ' Popish Plot.' The Colonel
however eflFected his own escape to France, and while
there in 1679, after long previous courtship, he ob-
tained the hand of the beautiful widow of George
Count Hamilton. This her first husband was son of
the fourth Earl of Abercom, and Colonel of a French
Regiment in France, where he was killed in 1676 ;
leaving issue by his young widow three daughters,
Elizabeth, afterwards married to Laurence Viscount
Ross ; Frances, to Henry Viscount Dillon ; and Mary,
to Nicholas Viscount Kingsland. At the Viceregal
Court these ladies were distinguished as the three Vis-
countesses, and were buried together in St. Patrick's
Cathedral, as was their mother many years after. Her
maiden name was Frances Jennings, the eldest daughter
of Richard Jennings of Sandridge in Herefonlshire,
and sister of the celebrated Duchess of Marlborough.
In 1684, Tyrconnel returned from his exile, and
King James, on his accession to the throne, promoted
him to the rank of Lieutenant-General, as " a man of
great abilities and clear courage, and one, who for many
years had a true attachment to His Majesty's person
and interest." He also raised him by patent of 1685
to the Peerage of Ireland, with the titles of Baron of
Talbotstown, Viscount Baltinglas and Earl of Tyrcon-
46 KINQ JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
nel,* to hold to him and his heirs male, and for want
of such issue to his nephew Sir William Talbot of
Cartown, Baronet, and his heirs male ; and, in case
of failure there, to another of his nephews, William
Talbot of Haggardstown. The preamble to this pa-
tent also lauds the Colonel for ^^ his immaculate alle-
giance, and his infinitely great services performed to
the King, and to King Charles the Second, in
England, Ireland, and foreign parts, both by sea and
land, in which he suffered frequent imprisonments and
many great wounds." Then it was that, being jealous
of the support, which the Duke of Monmouth's
rebellion had received from his English subjects of the
Protestant faith, and fearing the sympathies of those
of Ireland in that cause, James at once determined on
disarming them ; the more especially as the army of
Ireland at that time consisted, in a very large propor-
tion, of men of the ' new interest,' as those of Cromwell's
introduction were termed ; and he gave ample powers
to this new peer to regulate the existing troops, and place
and displace whom he pleased ; at the same time
appointing his brother-in-law, the Earl of Clarendon,
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. " Talbot," admits Har-
ris, the historian of King William, " proceeded in new
modelling the army, and began with the ofl&cers in
the same method, that was designed immediately
• This title had been originallj in the iUustrious Irish Sept of
O'Donnell, and was subsequently enjoyed by Owen Fitz- William,
by a creation of 1663, to him and his heirs, which became
extinct by his death in 1669.— S. P.
tyrconnbl's horse. 47
before the death of King Charles ; which was, to dis-
place all officers that had been in the Parliamentary
or in Oliver's army, and the sons of such. The Duke
of Ormonde had directions to proceed in this manner,
yet he made no progress in it, under pretence of gain-
ing time to find them out, but in reality because he
saw it was to make room for papists."*
A similar new modelling took place in the Corpo-
rations, when various Catholics of this name were
introduced into the new charters. James Talbot was
a burgess in that to Athenry ; James and William
Talbot in that to Roscommon ; William Talbot in that
to Athy ; Major William Talbot in one to Banagher.
Walter, Anthony, William, Patrick, John, and Charles
Talbot were burgesses in another to Enniscorthy ;
Richard Talbot in that to Swords ; while in the char-
ter to Wexford, Walter, Anthony, and William
Talbot were appointed aldermen, and Patrick Talbot
town-clerk of the borough.
TyrconneFs annual salary at this time as Lieu-
tenant-General of the Army, was £1,410 ; that of the
Earl of Clarendon, as Viceroy, £6,593 6s. 8d. On
the same establishment of 1687-^, Sir William
Talbot, Baronet, ranks a pensioner for £500, and
Mr. William Talbot for other £50.
The influence, which Lord Clarendon might be sup-
posed at this period to have over his brother, could not
restrain those indiscretions of his that ultimately alien-
• Harris's WilUam III^ p. 106-7.
48 KING James's irish army list.
ated the kingdom from James. At the close of 1686,
he was obliged to resign the Viceroyalty, and Tyrcon-
nel was deputed in his place. In August, 1687, the
latter waited on King James, as before mentioned,^ at
Chester ; and in the November of the next year, when
the Prince of Orange made his descent upon England,
Tyrconnel, who was especially intrusted to support the
cause of James in Ireland, promptly l)ut unsuccessfully
sought to secure Derry, from which he had previously
drawn off the garrison. In a fortnight after, King
James made his will at Whitehall, and therein named
this Earl one of those to whom he confided the conduct
of his wishes and objects. On the following 14th of
March, when James, having eluded the vigilance of
Admiral Herbert, who was ordered to intercept him,f
after landing at Kinsale proceeded to Cork, Tyrconnel
waited upon him there, and gave liim an account of
the state and condition of this kingdom ; represent-
ing that the diligence of the Catholic Nobility and
Gentry had raised above fifty regiments of Foot and
several troops of Horse and Dragoons," (defining thus,
as accurately as possible, the contents of the present
Army List); "that he had distributed amongst them
about 20,000 arms, but they were most so old and
unserviceable, that not above 1,000 of the fire-
arms were foimd afterwards to be of any use ; that
the old troops, consisting of one battalion of Guards,
together with Macarty's, Clancarty's, and Newton's
♦ Ante, p. 13.
t Lansdowne MSS. Brit. Museum, No. 849, f. 79.
tybconnel's horse. 49
[Newcomen's] Regiments, were pretty well armed,
as also seven companies of Mountjoy's, which were
with them ; the other six having staid in Derry with
Colonel Lundy and Gust. Hamilton, who were respec-
tively the Lieutenant-Colonel and Major of that
Regiment ; that he had three Re^ments of Horse,
.Tyrconners (his own), Russell's, and one of Dragoons ;
that the Catholics of the country had no arms, where-
as the Protestants had great plenty, and the best
horses in the Kingdom ; that for artillery he had but
eight small pieces in a condition to march, the rest
not mounted ; no stores in the magazines, little
powder and ball, all the oflScers gone for England,
and no money in cash.***
In this the EarVs own Regiment, John Talbot of
Belgard (of whom hereafter) was a Captain, while in
Lord Dongan's Dragoons, Henry, William and John
Talbot were Lieutenants ; George Talbot was a Major
in the King's Own Infantry, as was John Talbot
in Colonel John Hamilton's Foot, and Gawan
Talbot in the Earl of Westmeath's. In the Earl of
Clanricarde's, John Talbot was a Captain, and Luke
Talbot a Lieutenant. In Colonel Henry Dillon's,
Gilbert Talbot was a Lieutenant, and Mark Talbot,
(whom the Montgomery MSS. describe as ^ Tyrconnel's
* darkens Life of James the II. vol. 2. It appears that King
Jaroes was entertained on this occasion at Cross-Green House in
Cork; one of his pages was William Owgan, who in 1721 was
Sheriff of that City ; in 1742, its Mayor ; and died in 1776, at
the advanced age of 95. — Hibernian MagazineSj ad ann.
E
50 KING James's irish army list.
bastard') was Lieutenant-Colouel in the Earl of An-
trim's.
On the 24th March, the last day of the year,
(1688), James entered Dublin, the only Capital which
seemed yet willing to hail liim as a King. On this
occasion Tyrconnel, bearing the sword of state in a
carriage, preceded the King, who followed amidst the
plaudits of the multitude, gallantly mounted and ac-
companied by the Earl of Granard and Lonl Powis on
his right, and the Duke of Benvick and Lord Melfort
at his left.* A short time after, he proceeded to
Deny, "though the season was very bitter," writes
Colonel 0'Kelly,f " in order to preserve his Protestant
subjects there from the ill-treatment which he ap-
prehended they might receive from the Irisli ; but he
was surprised, when on appearing before the City,
instead of receiving their submission," he was assailed
with avowed hostility. Returning to Dublin, he on
the 24th of April summoned his Parliament for May ;
on the first of which month, anxiously looking back
to Deny, he wrote to Lieutenant-General Hamilton,
then encamped before that City, " you shall have all
I can send you, cannon and mortars, to enable you
to reduce that rebellious town ; and to make the more
noise, Tyrconnel is preparing to go down to you, it
being, as you well ol)serve, of the last consequence to
ma^ster it."J
At and previous to this Parliament, and for the
* Dub. Lit. Gazette, p. 174.
t Excidium AlacaruB, p. 33.
} MSS. T.C.D., E 2, 19.
TYRCONNEL'S HORSE. 51
whole time while he was in Dublin, King James held
his court in the Castle, and thence issued his procla-
mations. At that memorable Parliament the Earl of
Tyrconnel sat as a peer, while in the Commons Mark
Talbot was one of the representatives of Belfast ; John
Talbot (of Belgard) one for Newcastle ; James Talbot
of Mount-TaJbot one for Athenry ; William Talbot
for the County of Louth ; Sir William Talbot, Baronet,
one for the County of Meath, and another William
Talbot was one of the members for the Borough of
Wexford. This last was of the Ballynamoney (now
Castle Talbot) line, son of Walter Talbot who had
been High Sheriff of the County of Wexford in 1649.*
He was killed at I)erry in King James's service.f
One of his sons, Gabriel, became a priest and superior
of a college at Oporto ; and another, James, entered
the Spanish service.J
Early in this session of the Parliament of Dublin,
a fortnight before which (11th April) King William
was crowned, Sir William Talbot came up with a
message fix)m the Commons, imparting " their earnest
wish, that the Bill repealing the Act of Settlement
should be passed by the Lords with all the expedition
they could, because the heart and courage of the
whole nation were bound up in it."
Tyrconnel's patent for a Dukedom bears date the
• MS. in Berm. Tower.
t Graham's Hist. Deny, pp. 185, 192. See some curious
particulars connected with him, in Walker's Derry, p. 31.
J Burke's Landed Gentry.
E 2
52 KING James's irish army list.
11th July following, and in August the Duke of
Schomberg landed at Carrickfergus. The former Duke
was one of those, who would have held back King James
from a hasty resolution of marching northwards at once,
to confront his enemy ; but illness, which confined
him at Chapelizod, prevented him from attending his
Majesty. In September, however, he joined his King
at Drogheda, declaring he would have 20,000 men
there by the next night, a promise which he fulfilled,
drawing his supplies chiefly from Munster. On this
occasion it was that he thought it advisable to oppose
those, who would have transferred the scene of war to
Connaught, urging that " there was not com enough
in that Province to subsist the army for two months.*
On the memorable " July the First," when King James
came to the ground, " he found Tyrconnel with the
right wing of Horse and Dragoons drawn up before
Old Bridge ;f and on that day, fatal for the Stuart
Dynasty, his and Colonel Parker's Horse suffered most.
The former maintained the assault of King William's
most powerful regiment, the Dutch Blue Guards, at
the ford of Old Bridge, " the houses, breastworks, and
hedges around which they lined." " Had the French
been posted there," writes Story, (part 1, p. 80) "it
would be more to our enemy's advantage, but the reason
of this was that the Irish Guard would not lose the
post of honour." Nor did they yield until after repeated
charges, " driving the Dutch Guards and Schomberg's
♦ Clarke's James II. vol. 2, p. 378. t Wem, p. 396.
TYRCONNEL'S HORSE. 53
Regiment back into the river, with a loss of a great
part of their oflScers."* Of Tyrconnel's Regiment,
Nugent (Robert) and Casanone (Peter) were wound-
ed, Major Meara (Francis) and Sir Charles " Take** (?)
killed.f Yet did not Tyrconnel leave the field,
until the King in his retreat had passed the defile of
Duleek, when, joining Lausun, he followed the Royal
fiigitive.J
" Tyrconnel," insinuates O'Connor, in his * Military
Memoirs^ (p. 109) "was brave in danger, pusillani-
mous in disaster. In the rout of the Boyne, he viewed
the cause of James as hopeless, that of William as
triumphant. He had estates and dignities to preserve,
and only in accommodation could he see security
for them. If James remained, the contest would be
prolonged beyond the hope of accommodation. He
therefore sent his chaplain to him, to press his flight
to France, and to work on his fears of falling into the
hands of William." Colonel O'Kelly (Excid. Mac. p.
57) is yet more openly severe against Tyrconnel,
accusing him of " domineering and disregard of the
Irish f — " designing not to oppose King William f —
and that he actually " sent his wife, with all his own
wealth and the King's treasure, into France." When
the King left Dublin a fugitive, he avowedly gave
expectation that he but sought France to obtain
thence such aid as would establish his power in Ireland,
♦ O'Conor s Military Mem. p. 107.
t Clarke's James II. vol. 2, p. 400.
t OTtellj's Excid. Mac, p. 35.
54 KING JAM£S*S IRISH ARMY LIST.
and he committed tlie conduct of his cause in the
meantime to Tyrconnel.
In forty days after the battle of the Boyne, King
William appeared before Limerick ; at which time
Colonel O'Kelly, with the suspiciousness that too fre-
quently is the sole response to Irish patriotism, charges
Tyrconnel with favouring a surrender of the city to,
and a treaty with, tliat King ; an object which he
relies would have been accomplished, but for the
coming in of Sarsfield, and the enthusiam the pre-
sence of that darling of the army excited. Even King
William was shaken by the results of his popularity,
abandoned the siege, and returned to England ; where-
upon Tyrconnel repaired to France to urge the
promised supplies.* His departure from Ireland at
such a crisis was undoubtedly reprehensible, and
especially injurious to himself " No sooner was his
back turned," observe the Royal Memoirs,! "than the
discontented part of the Army despatched the Bishop
of Cork, Colonels Simon and Henry Luttrell, and
Colonel Nicholas Purcell to St. Germains, with in-
structions to solicit his recall, addressing themselves to
his Majesty to this effect, — that my Lord Tyrconnel
was not qualified for such a superintendence as he had
hitherto exercised ; that his age and infirmities made
him require more sleep than was consistent with much
business ; that his want of experience in military
affairs rendered him exceeding slow in his resolves.
♦ Clarke's James II. vol. 2, p. 420.
t Idem, vol. 2, p. 422, &c.
tyrconnel's morse. 55
and incapable of laying projects which no depending
officer would do for him ; they relied that, should
he return with the same authority again, it would
dishearten the body of the nation. They complained
of the desponding message he sent to the King after
the battle of the Boyne, which occasioned his Majesty's
leaving the Kingdom, whereas, had he but stayed a
few hours longer in Dublin, he had seen such a
number of fine troops as would have tempted him not
to abandon them ; concluding with several per-
sonal reflections, particularly against the Duke of
Tyrconnel, and indeed against all that had any tie to
his interest."
Notwithstanding these calumnious representations,
Tyrconnel, in January, 1690, near the close of that
year (old style), returned still Viceroy of his country,
while the promised supplies, to a nation disunited and
hopeless, were in unconfiding doubt parsimoniously
dispensed. " The King resolved to support his own
authority in Lord Tyrconnel, and hoped to send back
the army-ambassadors in such a temper as would
make them live easily with him, which cost the King
a great deal of trouble and pains, and was lost labour
in the end. But it was the King^s hard fate not only
to suflfer by his rebellious subjects, but to be ill-served
by his allies, and tormented by divisions amongst
his own people ; as if his enemies gave him not dis-
quiet enough, but that his friends must also come in
to their aid, to exercise his patience and aggravate his
56 KING JAM£S 8 IRISH ARMY LIST.
sufferings by turns."* The French offerings to the
cause, as they came with Tyrconnel, consisted of a
scanty supply of provisions, clothes, anus, and am-
munition (by design, as Colonel O'Kelly would insinu-
ate). Story sjx^aks of the contributions (part 2, p.
51-2) as "some soldiers' coats and caps, but such
sorry ones, that the Irish themselves could easily
see in what esteem the Monarch of France held them."
TyrconneFs first act of administration, on his return,
was to order the Duke of Berwick, whose conduct
had much disappointed him, out of Ireland.! The
privations of the Irish Army the while increased, so
much so that they had it communicated to their King
" over the water," that in case the expected fleet did
not come promptly from France, there would need no
enemy to destroy them. The Duke of Tyrconnel had,
however, been making all the preparations he could in
the interim, and had distributed the small resources he
possessed, as long as they lasted, with as much impar-
tiality as possible ; at last, upon the 8th of May, 1691,
the French fleet appeared in the Shannon, and in
it was " St. Ruth, with other French oflScers, as also
those gentlemen who had been in France to solicit the
Duke's removal ; which, though the King had not
yielded to, he however had so far given way to their
advice, as to abridge his power in reference to the
military affairs, the direction of which was vested so
wholly in St. Ruth, that Tyrconnel, who before could
♦ Clarke 8 James II. vol. 2, p. 422.
t Idem, vol. 2, p. 435.
TTlCOSJfEL'S HOE^L 57
have made a LieutenantrGenenl, Ind not mm power
to make a CoIoneL [thus accountiiig for scoie erf* the
changes which were subseqnentlj made in die Armr
List J. This so lowered his credit in die amiT. that
little regard was had to his anthmtr ; but he pru-
dently submitted, and left the whde management of
it to St. Ruth, ^ who seemin^j carried fSur, hot in the
bottom was prepossessed against him.*^ TrrconneL
when he found that the French commander brrjogfat
no money, earnestly ap[died to King James to procure
for the Irish government eren a thousand pistoles,
and retrenched even the necessary expenoes erf hb
own family and establishment ; but the request could
not be granted. The deserted Irish were left utteriy
to their own resources and exerdons, and this at a
crisis when individual views were so differing and
distracted. ^^ The King," plead the Royal MemfAn,
^^ was forced to work with such tools as he had, or
such as were put into his hands by others, which
required as much dexterity to hinder their hurting
one another, and by consequence himseH^ as Ui draw
any use fix)m such ill-suited and jarring instruments/
In the last stmg^e for the defence r/ Lime-
rick, Tyrconnel evinced -his honour and allegiance,
^^ Though bent with age, and wei^ied down with cor-
pulency, he assumed no inconsiderable degnse of
activity in repairing the fortifications of that t/iwn,
establishing magazines, and enforcing discipline ; and
made the officers and soldiers (first showing thr^
♦ Clarke's James II. vol. 2, p. 450.
58 KING JAMES'8 IRISH ARMY LIST.
example himself) take an oath of fidelity to James,
embracing a resolution to defend his Majesty's rights
to the last, and never to surrender without his con-
sent. He at the same time despatched an express to
St. Germains, [such communications were then of
difficult transmission], begging speedy succour or
leave to make terms. He was powerfully aided by
Sarsfield [to whom he had brought a patent creating
him Earl of Lucan], whose intentions (says O'Conor)
were always right and zealous for the king's service ;
but their effi)rts were unhappily counteracted by
treachery and discord, on which the English general
relied more than on the number and valour of his
own troops.''*
While this veteran patriot was " struggling with
the calamitous circumstances of his country, he was
seized with a fit of apoplexy on St. Laurence's day,
soon after he had done his devotion ; and, though he
came to his senses and speech again, yet he only Ian-
guished two or three days, and then died, just when
he was on the point of effecting a unity at least
amongst themselves, the want of which was the
greatest evil they laboured under.'f He died in the
middle of August, about a month before De Ginkell
commenced the siege, and was buried in St. Mun-
chins Cathedral within the city. There is not a
stone to tell where he lies. Harris says, in his Life
of King William, that this great Irishman died " some
♦ O'Conor 8 Military Memoirs, &c. p. 162-3.
t Clarke's James II. vol. 2, p. 462.
tyrconnel's horse. 59
say of poison, administered to him in a cup of ratafia,
because he would not comply with the prevailing fac-
tion then in the town ; while others attributed his
death to fever, and some to grief for the ruin of his
measures." " He was a man," writes Colonel (yKelly,
"of stately presence, bold and resolute, of greater
courage than conduct, naturally proud and passion-
ate, of moderate parts but of unbounded ambition.
In his private friendships he was observed to be
inconstant (and some did not shame to accuse him of
it), even to them by whose assistance he gained his
point, when he once obtained his own ends." He
" headed the peace party," says O'Conor, " supported
by the Hamiltons, Talbots, Nugents, Burkes, Rices,
Butlers, Sheldons, all of English descent, who pre-
ferred William as king of Great Britain and Ireland
to James as king of Ireland only ; and, in despair
of reinstating the latter in his ancestral throne,
sought to preserve their own possessions by accommo-
dation."* Again says O'Conor, " the English praised
Tyrconnel as a lover of peace, yet confiscated all his
estates ; which, if he had lived a month longer, would
have been preserved by the Treaty of Limerick, "f
Sir Bernard Burke in his Extinct Peerage (page
698) expressively writes in relation to Tyrconnel ;
"Of him much ill has been written, and more
believed ; but his history, like that of his unfortunate
country, has been written by the pen of party,
steeped in gall, and copied servilely from the pages
* O'Conor's Military Memoirs, p. 114. t Idem, p. 167.
60 KING James's irisii army list.
of prejudice by the lame historian* of modem times,
more anxious for authority than authenticity. Two
qualities he possessed in an eminent degree, wit and
valour ; and, if to gifts so brilliant and so Irish he joined
devotion to his country and fidelity to the unfortunate
and fated family, with whose exile he began life
and on whose ruin he finished it, it cannot be denied
that in his character the elements of evil were mixed
with great and striking good. Under happier cir-
cumstances the good might have predominated, and
he, whose deeds are held by his own family in such
high estimate, might have shed a wider lustre on his
race." All these views of Tyrconnel's character may
be closed with the emphatic words which Mason, in
his excellent History of St. Patrick's Cathedral,
breathes over his grave, " Whatever were his faults,
he had the rare merit of sincere attachment to an
unfortunate master."
He died without issue male, when William Talbot
of Haggardstown, his nephew, to whom the earldom
was limited in remainder by the creation patent of
1685, assumed that title ; but, having been attainted
by the description of William Talbot of Dundalk, he,
too, pined in poverty at St. Germains. His son
attained the rank of a Lieutenant-General in the
armies of France, but died without issue, and in him
the earldom in this name became extinct.* Tyrcon-
* It was afterwards revived in the Herefordshire family of
Carpenter, by a creation of 1761 ; while Sir John Brown low,
Baron of Charleville, was previously (1718) created Viscount
Tyrconnel.
tyrconnel's horse. 61
nel himself left issue two daughters, who married
foreign noblemen. He had also two sisters, Frances,
married first to James Cusack of Cushinstown, bar-
rister, by whom she had three sons ; Captain Thomas
Cusack, killed in France ; Captain William, killed in
Portugal ; and Nicholas Cusack, the captain in this
his uncle's regiment ; with one daughter, Helen Cu-
sack, married to Robert Arthur of Hacketstown,
County of Dublin, Lieutenant of Horse. On the
death of Cusack, this lady married to her second hus-
band the Honorable Thomas Newcomen, Privy Coun-
cillor, Brigadier of his Majesty's forces, and Colonel
of a Foot Regiment in Ireland, and by him she had
also issue five daughters : 1st, Katherine, married to
Simon Luttrell, Lieutenant-colonel of the Regiment
of Foot commanded by Sir Thomas Newcomen ; 2nd,
Alice, married to Major William Nugent, son of the
Earl of Westmeath ; 3rd, Frances, married to Sir Ro-
bert Gore, Bjiight, Captain of a Foot Company, eldest
son of Sir Francis Gore, Knight ; 4th, Margaret, the
wife of Sir Maurice Eustace of Castlemartin, Baronet,
Captain in the Infantry ; and 5th, Mary, the wife of
Charles White of Leixlip, one of the Privy Council.
Frances, Lady Newcomen, died 17th February, 1687,
and was buried at Clonsillagh, near Luttrellstown.
[Funeral Entries in Berm. TurJ] Tyrconnel's second
sister, Lucinda, married Edward Cusack of Lismullen,
by whom she had a son, Patrick Cusack, a Dominican
friar, who became Bishop of Meath, and was King
James's High Almoner and Grand Chaplain, while he
remained in this country.
62 KING JAMES'S IKISH ABMY LIST.
It may here be noticed that, on the 14th of
December, 1691, Greorge Talbot, described as of the
City of Dublin, who had been previously outlawed,
obtained a warrant for a nolle prosequi on his indict-
ment, grounded on his petition, which stated him an
Englishman and a Protestant ; that he was in 1681
made Captain of a Company of Foot in Ireland by
the Duke of Ormonde, and so continued until the
2nd July, 1690, when he was the first who, after the
battle of the Boyne, surrendered himself in Dublin,
and gave up at the Castle there, his own and other
fire-arms ; that he had given protection to Protes-
tants during the reign of James ; that, since his sur-
render, he had behaved himself peaceably and loyally,
and had taken the oath of fidelity before the Com-
missioners ; the truth of all which allegations the
Attorney-General certified. About the same time,
Richard Talbot of Malahide memorialed for a pardon
and restitution of his estates, he having been also
outlawed. His petition alleged that, while he admit-
ted he had held the office of Auditor-General to King
James, he had filled no other office or trust, civil or
military, in his time; and relied that when King
William, after the battle of the Boyne, was advan-
cing on Dublin, he had surrendered himself in the
camp at Finglas, on the 9th July, 1690, and had
ever since behaved himself " civilly and inoffensively
towards that monarch's government ;" the truth and
sufficiency of which purgation the Solicitor-General
also certified, and the prayer was granted.
tyrconnel's horse. 63
The widow of Tyrconnel and her daughters lived for
some time in the Court at St. Germains, with the Ex-
King, supported by a small pension which Louis XIV.
allowed them ; but having established her right to a
portion of jointure in 1703, as hereafter noticed,
and her daughters being married on the Continent,
she resolved on going over to Ireland. The state of
her health, however, induced her first to try the eflB-
cacy of the baths at Aix-larChapelle, and in Murray's
Despatches of the Duke of Marlborough^ is preserved
one of his Grace, from the Camp at Tirlemont, to the
authorities of that town, written with the object of
procuring attention and welcome for the Duchess,
then journeying thither. He also wrote to herself,
5th September, 1705 : —
" The first notice I received of your intention to
go to Aix, I immediately despatched a trumpet to the
French army, who brought me this morning the en-
closed pass. I have likewise ordered eight dragoons to
attend on you on your coming to the Bosch. These
will wait on you to Maestricht, where the Governor
will give you another escort on to Aix. I heartily
wish you a good journey, and all the success you can
desire with the waters. If I should not be able to
have the satisfaction of seeing you at the waters, I hope
to have that of meeting you in Holland, before I em-
bark ; being with much truth.
Madam,
Tour Grace's most obedient humble servant,
M."
64 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
In 1708, she was in Brussels, and only then, it
would seem, on the eve of departure. On the 24th of
May in that year, Marlborough wrote to his own
Duchess : — " When I took leave of Lady Tyrconnel,
she told me that her jointure in Ireland was in such
disorder, that there was an absolute necessity for her
going thither for two or three months, for the better
settling of it. As the climate of Ireland will not per-
mit her being there in the winter, she should begin
her journey about ten days hence ; she said that she
did not intend to go to London, but hoped she might
have the pleasure of seeing you at St. Alban's. I
have offered her all that might be in my power to make
her journey to Holland and England easy, as also
that if she cared to stay at St. Alban's, either at her
going or return, you woidd offer it her with a good
heart. You will find her face a good deal changed,
but, in the discourse I have had with her, she seems to
be very reasonable and kind.*^ On her return to
Dublin, she fixed her residence at Arbour Hill, a
healthy and picturesque situation near the Phoenix
Park ; and there, after founding a Nunnery for poor
Clares in the adjacent locality of King-street, this
lady, who once adorned Courts and passed through
the libertine manners of Charles the Second's days un-
blemished, closed her life in March, 1730-1, at the
advanced age of 92. " Her death," says Walpole,
" was occasioned by her falling out of bed on the floor
* Jesse's Memoirs of the Court of England, vol. 4, p. 156.
tyrcoxnel's horse. 65
in a winter's night, and being too feeble to rise or to
call, she was found in the morning so perished with
cold, that she died in a few hours." She is described
as then appearing low in stature, and extremely ema-
ciated ; without the slightest trace of ever having
been a beauty. She was buried, with her daughters
by George Count Hamilton, the ' three Viscountesses'
before mentioned, ante page 45, in a vault of St.
Patrick's Cathedral ; while a mural slab, in St.
Andrew's Scotch College at Paris, is her commemora-
tion in a land where she had passed many of her days
of joy and sorrow. It records her as having been a
great benefactress to that establishment, and as
having provided an endowment for the celebration of
a daily mass for ever there, for the repose of her soul,
and those of her two husbands.
The Talbots outlawed in 1691 were Richard Earl of
Tyrconnel, so attainted by seven inquisitions, and
by one other as Richard, son of William Talbot,
called Lord Tyrconnel ; Richard Talbot of Boolis,
County Meath ; Richard Talbot of Malahide, County
Dublin ; John Talbot of Dardistown, County Meath,
John Talbot of Belgard, County Dublin ; John,
Patrick, and Anthony Talbot of Wexford ; Wil-
liam Talbot of Kilcarty, County Meath, Baronet ;
other William Talbots described as of Wexford, of
Wicklow, of Fassaroe, County Wicklow, of Haggards-
town and of Dundalk, County Louth, and of Straffan,
County Kildare. James Talbot of Templeogue,
County Dublin ; James Talbot of Mount Talbot,
66 KING James's ibish army list.
County Roscommon; Brine, or Bruno Talbot of
Dublin, (who was James's Chancellor of the Exche-
quer,* but he early made his submission to King Wil-
liam). Francis Talbot of Powerscourt, County
Wicklow ; Marcus Talbot of Dublin and of the
County Derry. (This last was, as before mentioned,
Lieutenant-Colonel of the Earl of Antrim's Infentry,
member of Parliament for Belfast in 1689, and sig-
nalised himself by a gallant sally on the occasion of the
first siege of Limerick, but was taken prisoner at Augh-
rim). Chariotte Talbot, a daughter of Tyrconnel, was
also attainted, as was Frances his widow. The latter,
however, preferred her suit, at the Court of Chichester
House, Dublin, in 1700, for her jointure oflf the lands
of Cabragh, County Dublin, forfeited by her late
husband, and the claim was allowed. Lucy Talbot
sought and was allowed, as Administratrix of William
Talbot, the benefit of a leasehold of County Roscom-
mon lands. — Jane Talbot claimed and was allowed an
annuity, left by the will of Colonel Gilbert Talbot in
1674, and charged on houses in Limerick forfeited
by Sir William Talbot. — Mary Talbot, a minor,
sought, by her guardian, James Donnellan, and was
allowed, a large charge on houses in Dublin, forfeited
by James Talbot. — Helen and Margaret Talbot^
daughters of George Talbot, deceased, also minors, by
Patrick Talbot, their guardian, claimed the reversion
of an estate tail in County of Roscommon lands, for-
• Story's Impartial History, part 1, p. 65.
tybconnel's horse. 67
feited by Greorge Talbot, such reversion accruing,
if their brother James Talbot should die without issue ;
and their claim was allowed, subject to that contin-
gency ; while said James himself claimed and was al-
lowed that estate tail, and Sarah Talbot was allowed
a jointure off said lands. — Lastly, Henry Talbot, a
minor, by George Holmes, his guardian, claimed a
remainder in Templeogue, and other lands in the
Counties of Dublin and Kildare, forfeited by James
Talbot ; but his claim was dismist.*
In the cause of Prince Charles-Edward and his in-
vasion of 1745, a Captain James Talbot and Major
Talbot were engaged at Prestonpans, and Brigadier
General 'de Tyrconnel' was taken prisoner by the
English at sea in 1746.t
LIEUT.-COLONEL DOMINICK SHELDON.
The Sheldons are an existing family of respecta-
bility at Brailes-House in the County of Warwick,
having been theretofore established at Beoly in that
of Worcester. Ralph Sheldon of Beoly accompanied
Charles the Second in his flight to Boscobel, aiding
his concealment in the Oak, to the foot of which he
and three others attended their Royal master ;X ^^^ ^^
* Registries of Claims in Custom House Records.
t Gent. Mag., ▼. 14, p. 416 ; and v. 16, pp. 29, 145, 208
t Burke's Landed Gentry, f. 1226.
F 2
68 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
this line, it would seem most probable, was Lieutenant
Colonel Dominick. It is true that a Lieutenant Wil-
liam Sheldon passed patent in 1666 as a ' soldier ' for
858 acres plantation measure in the County Tipper-
ary, but it cannot be presumed that an immediate re-
lative of his would be an adherent of James. The sur-
name was even previously known in Ireland in the
County Limerick, where a Miss Sheldon of that place
intermarried in the seventeenth century with Mr.
Leonard Drew, of a Devonshire family, a branch of
which is yet represented in Youghal.*
The Peerage Books afford strong confirmation of
this oflScer having been of the Brailes-House line,
when they record that Arthur Dillon of the noble line
of Costello at the close of the seventeenth century
married Christiana, the daughter of Ralph Sheldon^
whom Lodge describes as ' niece of the Colonel,' while
O'Callaghan {Brigades^ p. 100) says she was maid of
Honor to the Queen of James the Second. Inquiries
on the lineage have been directed to Brailes-House,
Viscount Dillon, and others, in vain. It does, however,
seem almost certain that the Colonel was brother to
the Ralph Sheldon, whom Sir Bernard Burke in his
'Landed Gentry,' (f. 1226) describes as "of Steeple
Barton, afterwards of Weston and Beoly," and as
having " died in 1720." In Clarke's Life of James
II. (vol. ii. p. 252) this Ralph Sheldon is said to
have aided that monarch's escape from Whitehall to
Feversham.
• Burke s Landed Gentry, f. 106.
tyrconnel's horse. 69
This Dominick Sheldon, who had been a Captain to
the Duke of Ormonde, (see post^ at ' Col. Francis Car-
rol,') is on the establishment of 1687-8* set down for
a pension of £200 per annum. Colonel O'Kelly repre-
sents him as having been " an Englishman by birth,
of the Roman Catholic religion, brought into Ireland
on the accession of James the Second, by Tyrconnel,
and by him made Captain of a company of men at
arms. He afterwards promoted him to be his Lieu-
tenant, with the command of his Regiment in his
absence ; and, by his uncontrollable power with James,
he (Tyrconnel) procured for this favourite a commis-
sion to be one of the General Officers, though still a
Lieutenant-Colonel, and got his commission dated
before that of Sarsfield, whom he designed to sup-
press."f Early in this campaign, " the Irish army,
under Major Greneral Richard Hamilton and ' Major '
Dominick Sheldon, having taken the fort of Hillsbo-
rough and plundered Lisbum, Belfast and Antrim, laid
siege to Coleraine ; but there they met with such a
warm reception from Major Gustavus Hamilton, who
commanded in the town, and spared no charge or
pains to make it tenable, that they were forced to
♦ In the MSS. of Trinity College, Dublin, is (E 1. 1) the ** List
of Payments made for civil and military affairs, with pensions in
Ireland for one year, beginning 1st January, 1687." It appears
to be the original book, a vellum manuscript, signed by the
Council in England. It is dated Srd February, 1687-8, at
Whitehall.
t O'Callaghan's Macarice Excidium, pp. 150-1.
70 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
draw off with considerable loss, whereby their designs
against Derry were retarded. *** When afterwards his
King retired from investing the latter place, ' Major *
Dominick Sheldon was one of the officers whom he
left before it to continue the siege. He afterwards
commanded the Cavalry at the Boyne, and had two
horses shot under him.f " A gallant charge under
General Sheldon at Sheep-house might have given a
different termination to the fight at the Boyne, but
for the prompt heroism of Levison's and Sir Albert
Conyngham's Dragoons, who, getting in the rere of
their antagonists, jumped from their saddles, lined the
hedges on both sides of the road, and, on the return
of the enemy from their successful charge, fired on
them with deadly effect, while Ginkle taking them in
the rear completed their discomfiture. "J When, on
the 30th of August, 1690, King William abandoned
his siege of Limerick, Sarsfield recommended that he
should be closely and vigorously pursued, and offered
to conduct the pursuit in person ; but, according to
Colonel O'Kelly, Tyrconnel gave private orders to
Sheldon, his Lieutenant-Colonel, to march the greater
part of the Horse into Connaught. He was however
ordered back by d'Usson and De Tesse, when he
promptly obeyed ; but, after continuing in Limerick
three days, he and his force were again commanded to
march into the country, as for convenience of forage ;
* Lodge's Peerage, v. 5, p. 175.
t Clarke's James II., v. 2, p. 400.
t Fitzgerald's Limerick, v. 2, p. 326.
tyrconnel's horse. 71
whereas, says Colonel O'Kellj, "they had sufficient
quantity of oats within Limerick to feed all their
horses for two months to come, and the enemy could
not keep the field for half that time."
Lieutenant-Colonel Sheldon, with Colonels Max-
well and John Hamilton, constituted the Directory
which Tyrconnel, when going over to France to urge
the supplies, deputed to advise the Duke of Berwick
in the charge of government cast upon him. At the
last siege of Limerick, in September, 1691, " when by
Clifford's neglect the enemy was permitted to make a
bridge of boats here near Annaghbeg, and thus passed
over their Horse and Dragoons between the Irish
Horse and the town. Colonel Sheldon could only,
by advancing the picket, stop the enemy at a pass,
till himself would be able to gain the mountains with
his horse and foot, and so make their way to Six-mile-
bridge, a mancEuvre which was with great difficulty
performed at last ; but not being able to subsist there,
they were ordered back towards Clare, upon which
the enemy passed a great body of horse and dragoons
over their new bridge, and came before Limerick at
Thomond Gate.''* Colonel O'Kelly, with his usual
inclination to find fault with any of Tyrconnel's
party, unjustifiably upbraids Sheldon for the "want of
courage or conduct" which this retreat, according to
him, evinced. Pending the treaty for surrendering
the town, Colonel Sheldon dined at the English camp,
• Clarke's James II., v. 2, p. 463-4.
72 KING James's irish army list.
and, after the capitulation, Sarsfield entrusted to him
the care of embarking the Irish refugees, " whose de-
parture marks one of the most mournful epochs in
our sad history."* Upon his landing them in France,
King James wrote him a letter of acknowledgment
from St. Germains, adding how well satisfied he was
" with the behaviour and conduct of the oflScers, and
the valour and fidelity of the soldiers ; and how sensi-
ble he should ever be of their services, which he
would not fail to reward when it should please God to
put him in a capacity of doing so.*^ Edward Sheldon
and Sheldon, Esqrs. were subsequently of the
Board of Green Cloth at the Court of St. Germains. J
It is somewhat contradictory in Colonel O'Kelly's
estimate of Sheldon that, while he censures as above
that officer's retreat from before Limerick, as discou-
raging his party from defending the City,§ he yet insi-
nuates, immediately previous to the sarcasm, that
" Sheldon and Lord Galmoy, true Tyrconnelists,
wrote (it is believed) more comfortably into France
than was suggested by Tyrconnel, and that they en-
gaged to hold out to the last extremity in hope of a
powerful relief from thence, of men, money, and all
other necessaries to prosecute the war, which (he adds)
if timely sent had certainly preserved Ireland."^
* O'Conor 8 Military Memoirs, p. 192.
t See thia letter in full in O'Callaghan^s Brigades, v. 1, p. 63.
J Clarke's James II., v. 2, p. 411.
§ Excidium Macarice, p. 149.
f Idem, p. 147.
tyrconnel's horse. 73
This Lieutenant-Colonel was outlawed in 1691 on two
inquisitions, being in one styled of Dublin, in the
other of Pennybum-mill, County Derry. In France,
whither he passed over, he ranked Colonel of a
Brigade Regiment of Horse, styled par excellence
'the King's Regiment;' of which Edmond Prendergast
was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel, (having theretofore
held that rank in Colonel Hugh Sutherland's Horse),
and Edmond Butler, his Cornet in Tyrconnel's, was
appointed Major in the Brigade. In 1702, Sheldon
so distinguished himself against the Baron de Mercy,
that he was raised from the rank of Colonel to be a
Lieutenant-General, and all the supernumerary offi-
cers of his Regiment were put upon full pay. At the
conflicts of the Mincio and Po in 1702 against Prince
Eugene, "great glory was acquired by Sheldon's
Horse, to which a number of reduced officers were
attached as volunteers. These gallant gentlemen,
exiled from their native land, reduced to French
half-pay scarce sufficient for subsistence, preferred the
activity of a camp to the indolence and obscurity of
a French provincial town King Louis, to mark
his satisfaction at the distinguished manner in which
they had acted, raised their pay to an equality with
that of officers of Infantry of the same rank."* " In
1703, when the Imperialists under Visconti were
posted on the Christallo, whose precipitous banks that
General thought secured him against surprise or at-
* O'Conor s Military Memoirs, pp. 240-1.
74 KING James's irish army list.
tack, Vendome the French commander, his opponent,
selected the best of his Regiments of cavalry, and
amongst these Sheldon's Horse, to surround and
attack Visconti. The Imperialists, taken by surprise
while their horses were at grass, were overwhelmed
and driven into the Sassoni, a • river in their rere,
where most of those who were not cut down were
drowned. Sheldon's Horse had a principal share in
this brilliant affair, in which their commander was
himself wounded.'^ In 1703 his brigade was not less
distinguished in the Army of the Rhine, and at the
battle of Spire, where he was again wounded. The
name of his Regiment was afterwards changed to
*Nugent's,' again in 1733 to Fitz-Jaijies's, and was dis-
banded in 1763.
MAJOR FRANCIS MEARA.
The O'Mearas were a distinguished territorial sept
in the Barony of Upper Ormond, County Tipperary,
and the name of their principal residence, Tuaim-ui-
Meara, is still retained in that of Toomavara, within
that district, yet the only individuals of the name,
who appear in the outlawries of 1642, are Dermot
Meara, described as " of Dublin," and Catherine his
wife.
In the commencement of the seventeenth century
O'Conor's Military Memoirs, p. 256.
tyrconnel's horse. 75
flourished Dermod O'Meara, a physician and a poet,
who, Ware says in his "Writers," was educated at
Oxford. He wrote a history of the House of Ormond
in verse, as also some prose medical treatises. His
son, Edmund O'Meara, also a Doctor of Oxford and a
member of the College of Physicians of London, resided
for some time at Bristol, and died in 1680, leaving
three sons, William, a physician also ; the above Major
Francis, his second son ; and the third, a Jesuit.*
This Francis was one of the burgesses in King
James's Charter of 1687 to Wicklow, and was sheriff
of that county in the following year. He was killed
at the battle of the Boyncf A funeral entry in
Bermingham Tower, Office of Arms, records the death
of Teigue O'Meara of Lishenuske, County Tipperary,
(son and heir of William O'Meara of do., son and heir
of Donnell O'Meara of do.), who had married Honora,
daughter of Kobert Grace of Courtstown, County
Kilkenny ; by whom he had issue three sons, Daniel,
William, and Patrick, and two daughters. Said
Teigue died at Killballykelty, County Waterford,
30th April, 1636, and was interred at Clonmel.
Another member of this sept, Thomas Meara, was a
Lieutenant in Colonel Dudley Bagnall's Regiment of
Foot ; and a Thady O'Meara, having been seized of
various lands in the county of his sept, and being an
adherent of James, was attainted ; when Daniel
O'Meara claimed a fee-tail therein ; while in a patent
• Ware s Writers, p. 190.
t Clarke's James II., v. 2, p. 400.
76 KING James's irish army list.
of lands in the same county to John Otway, a saving
was contained of the rights of Theodore " Manigh'' to
certain townlands specified therein.
At the battle of Lauffield in 1747, Captain O'Meara
was of the wounded in Clare's Brigade. He was liv-
ing in 1793, when he resided with his son. General
Felix O'Meara, Commandant of Dunkirk. This lat-
ter individual went into the French service in 1755,
being then but eighteen years of age, and was imme-
diately received into Rothe's Regiment. In the same
year hostilities commenced in Europe, by Admiral
Boscawen's taking the Alcide and Le Lys, French
ships of war ; and preparations were made for land
actions on both sides. The Irish regiments embodied
in France were sent to garrison Calais, Dunkirk,
Boulogne, and Ardres, on that frontier of France
nearest to England, as it was the policy of the
French king to oppose the Irish troops to those of
England. Here O'Meara, sharing in all the services
of his regiment, gradually rose, as vacancies occurred.
In 1778, when this brigade was incorporated with
French regiments, O'Meara, then a Captain, had the
same rank given him in that of Auvergne, which was
the second in military estimate of all the Infantiy of
that country. Peace had existed between the two
kingdoms for some years previously ; but hostilities
again breaking out in the latter year, (which led to
the American war), Captain O'Meara for a time took
part with Royalty. In the succeeding years, however,
of intestine commotion in France, he, being then
tyrconnel's horse. 77
Lieutenant-Colonel, resigned his commission to the
Crown, and, embracing the Republican movement,
received a fresh commission from the National party.
He fought under General Dumourier, afterwards un-
der General Dampierre, and was subsequently raised
to the rank of Lieutenant-General, with the defence
of Dunkirk confided to him.* There he subse-
quently married a young lady with a fortune of
80,000 livr*^s. Three younger brothers of his were
also officers in the French service.f
CAPTAIN JOHN ROCH.
David de la Roche, son of Alexander de Rupe, alias
de la Roche, was the founder of this ancient Norman
family in Ireland. He mamed Elizabeth, daughter
and co-heiress of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester,
by the Princess Joan his wife, daughter of King
Edward the FirstJ From that marriage descended
a race that acquired the lordship and territory of
Fermoy, in the County of Cork, a district hence
known as the Roches' Country. During the reign of
that English monarch, several Royal letters were
addressed to members of this family, requiring their
aid and personal service in the Scottish wars ; sum-
monses were afterwards directed to them to attend
• Gent.'s Mag., 1793, p. 449.
t Anth. Hib., V. 2, 239.
t Burke s Landed Gentry, f. 1132.
78 RING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
the earliest Irish Parliaments ; and about the year
1320, Creorge de la Roche, who had been theretofore
twice cited as a Baron to Parliaments held in Dublin,
was fined 200 marks for non-attendance. In 1344
the King summoned Lord Roche, by the style of
"Capitaneus des Rocheyns,'' to attend him in the
wars in France. This nobleman was, according to
Lodge, John, Lord Roche, who intermarried with
Eleanor, daughter of the second Lord Kerry, by
whom he had the first Countess of Kildare, mother of
the first Countess of Carrick, mother of the first Earl
of Ormond.* In 1377, John Roche of Fermoy had
summons by writ to Parliament.f It may be here
remarked, that in this and the two ensuing centuries,
the Lords Roche of Fermoy are, in the Annals, Eccle-
siastical Records, and official documents, universally
recognised in their character of Irish chieftains, as
well as of Anglo-Irish peers, by the style and title of
" Capitanei suae nationis ;" and their inheritance is
designated the Roches' Country, not only in the an-
cient maps of Ireland, but in the Acts of Henry the
Eighth, Elizabeth, and even down to the time of
Cromwell. David Roche, Lord Roche, sumamed the
Great, sat in Parliament as Viscount Roche of Fer-
moy in the reigns of Edward the Fourth and Henry
the Seventh.^ He was one of the Peers whom the
latter Sovereign invited to the entertainment at
* Lodge's Peerage, Ist edition, voL 2, p. 103.
t Burke's Extinct Peerage, f. 711.
t Idem, f. 692.
tyrconnel's horse. 79
Greenwich, where he caused Lambert Simnel to attend
as a menial.* Before and after this year, the mayor-
alty of Cork was repeatedly filled by a Roche. An
original letter of 1556, from the Clergy, &c. of Kin-
sale to Queen Mary, recommending Patrick Roche
for the then vacant See of Cork and Cloyne, is pre-
served in the Cottonian Collection of the British
Museum. In Perrot's memorable Parliament of
1585, Viscount Fermoy attended on summons, while
Philip Roche sat there as member for Kinsale.
Soon after the attainders consequent upon the Des-
mond rebellion, John, son of Dominick Roche of
Limerick, emigrated to Rochelle ; as did Maurice and
John Roche, two sons of John Roche of EUenfinch-
town, in December, 1601, with Juan de Aquila, for
Spain,f yhere it is believed the name still exists.
Very extensive estates of John Roche Fitz-Thomas,
in the County Waterford, were granted in 1605 to
Sir Richard Boyle. About the year 1630, the Reve-
rend Mr. Roche, President of the College of Douay,
and subsequently Roman Catholic Bishop of Ross in
Ireland, founded an establishment for Irish priests at
Antwerp, where they were supported, " partly by the
alms given at masses, and partly by the benevolence
of the people f but Harris, in his account of such
Irish establishments, attributes this foundation to a
Mr. Laurence Sedgrave.
The family were ever warm adherents of the
* Bermingham's Remarks on Baronages, p. 54.
f Pacata Hibemia, p. 426.
80 KING JAMES'S IKISH ARMY LIST.
Stuarts. David, Viscount Fermoy, lost in the Royal
cause in the war of 1641 estates worth £50,000 per
annum. He was himself banished, with a Regiment of
which he had the command, to France, where he
died. Amongst those attainted in 1643, were Maurice,
Lord Viscount Fermoy, Patrick Roche of Poolenelong,
Richard of Gliny, David of Ballynacloghy, James of
Keniere, John of Ballinvallagh, William and Adam
of Rhyncorran, Thomas of Aghlenane, Ulick of Ballin-
dangan, Edmund of Ballinlegan, Theobald and Wil-
liam of Killeigh, Redmond of Garravadrolane, Miles
and Edward of Castletown, Theobald Fitz-John Roche
of do., Ulick Fitz-John of do., and William Fitz-
Thomas Roche of Clostage, all in the County of Cork.
Amongst the Confederate Catholics at Kilkenny, in
1646, sat Maurice Roche, Viscount Fermoy, .with the
Peers ; and David Roche of Glanaure, John Roche of
Castletown, and Redmond Roche of Cahirdowgan in
the Commons. When Ireton took Limerick in 1651,
Alderman Jordan Roche, Edmund Roche, Esq., and
David Roche were three of the twenty-four excluded
from mercy ; and Cromwell's Act " for settling Ire-
land,** passed in the following year, excepted Maurice
Roche, Viscount Fermoy,from pardon for life and estate.
After witnessing and sharing many of the visitations
of the civil war, George and John Roche withdrew in
exile to Flanders, where they found their Prince,
for whom they had suffered so much, also a fugitive
and a wanderer. It is recorded of them that, with their
kinsman Viscount Fermoy, they shared their military
tyrconnel's horse. 81
paj with Charles,* a " service which," adds Sir Ber-
nard, " the monarch overlooked at the Restoration."
The reproach was supererogation in the annals of
that race. Even the Declaration of Royal Gratitude,
spread out in the Act of Settlement, names of this
family only Captain Miles " Roache," of the County
of Cork, " for services beyond the seas."
In King James's Charter of 1687 to Cork, Patrick
and John Roch were appointed Aldermen, and Ed-
mund Roche a free Burgess. In that of the same
year to Limerick, Dominick Roche, Esq., and Thomas
Roch, merchant, were named Aldermen. The former
was by King James, on his arrival in Ireland, cre-
ated Baron Tarbert and Viscount Cahiravahilla.f In
the new Charter to Kinsale, Edward, Patrick, and
Edmund Roche, and John Roche Fitz-Edmund were
Burgesses. In those of 1688 to Cloghnekilty,
John Roche was a Burgess, as was James Roch in
that to Mallow. In the Charter to Wexford, An-
thony, James, and John Roche were Burgesses ; in
that to Middleton, Philip Roche was one of the two
Bailiff. In those of 1689, Edward Roche was a
Burgess in one to Fethard ; Edward Roche and
James Roche were Burgesses in that to CharlevUle.
In the pension list of 1687-8 appear entries of £150
per annum for " Lord Roche's children," and of £100
per annum " for the now Lord Roche."
* Burke 8 Landed Gentry, Sup. p. 280.
t Ferraris Limerick.
82 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
In the Parliament of Dublin sat David Roche,
Viscount Fermoy (as on out-lawry reversed) amongst
the Peers. He was afterwards drowned at Ply-
mouth in the great storm of 1703, and was succeeded
in the title by Ulick Roche,* who dying without
issue, was succeeded by John Roche of Ballendangan,
"who," writes Smith in 1745,t "is now in the ser-
vice of the King of Sardinia, and has no issue. He
was during the late war in the service of that King,
in the rank of a Grcneral Officer, and is a great favourite
of the Prince. He was sent at diflferent times to prevent
the French and Spaniards from crossing the Alps into
Italy, distinguished himself in a brave defence of
Augusta; and, when compelled to surrender Casal,
the French and Spanish Generals paid him all military
honors, and entertained him nobly in their camp.
After being a prisoner for some time, he returned to
the Sardinian service."
Besides the above Captain John Roche, there ap-
pear of the name on this List, Mathew Roche, a
Lieutenant in Lord Galmoy's Horse ; Maurice Roche a
Captain, and Nicholas Roche an Ensign in Colonel
Thomas Butler's Infantry ; James Roche a Captain
in Lord Kilmallock's ; James Roche a Lieutenant in
Major-General Boiseleau's, in which David Roche also
was an Ensign. In Colonel Dudley Bagnall's, Edmund
Roche was a Lieutenant, and another David Roche
an Ensign. In Sir Michael Creagh's, Philip Roche
was a Captain, and another Philip a Lieutenant. In
* Ni^oU's Peerage.
t mBtory of Cork, v. 1, p. 345.
tyrconnel's horse. 83
Colonel Owen MacCartie's, Philip and John Roche
were Captains, Ulick a 'Lieutenant, and David and
James Roche Ensigns ; in Colonel Gordon CNeilFs,
James Roche was an Ensign ; and lastly, in Colonel
John Barrett's, Ulick Roche was a Lieutenant, and
David and James Roche were Ensigns.
The outlawries of 1691 present the following
Roches of that period : Philip Roche of Dublin, of
Brickfields, County of Cork, and of Poulelong, in the
same County ; James Roche of Ballymontagh, Coun-
ty of Kilkenny, and of Feartagh, County of Cork ;
David Roche of Aghane, County of Wexford, and of
Curraheen, County of Waterford ; David Roche of
Limerick, merchant ; Michael Roche of Poulenelong,
County of Cork ; Richard and Maurice Roche of
Kinsale, County of Cork ; Maurice " Roach" of Cork ;
John Roch of Ballydanton, County of Cork, of Skib-
bereen. County of Cork, of Ballyadow, County of
Wexford, and of Hussabeg, County of Clare ; Joshua
Roch of Knocknamana, County of Cork ; Theobald
Roach of Ballydallon, County of Cork ; Patrick
Roach of Dundauran, County of Cork ; Patrick
Roache of Kerrane, County of Wexford ; Patrick of
Fountainstown, County of Cork ; Dominick and An-
drew of Cork ; Edward of Ballyadow, County of
Wexford, and of Curraheen, County of Waterford ;
Redmond Roche of Killehaly, County of Waterford ;
and Stephen Roach of Curwarragher, County of Cork.
This latter, on his attainder, retired to Kilrush,
County of Clare ; and afterwards to Pallis, in the
neighbourhood of his brother-inJaw, William Apjohn.
G 2
84 KING JAM£S'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
They had married two sisters, Anastasia and Cathe-
rine Lysaght, daughters and co-heiresses of William
Lysaght.*
At the Court of Chichester House in 1700, Cathe-
rine Roche, alias Lavallier, widow of Edward Roche,
claimed against the then proprietor of Trabolgan,
Francis, son of said Edward, her jointure thereoff ;
but her petition was dismist ; as was that of Clara
Roche for a jointure off the County of Cork lands,
forfeited by Philip Roche.
It may be mentioned that amongst the Southwell
MSS. some years since offered for sale by Thomas
Thorpe of Covent Garden, London, were curious Col-
lege Accounts of Lord Roche, from June, 1711, to
December, 1712. His tuition in dancing, fencing
and riding, quadrupled in amount the charges for the
mathematics, French, &c. Four dozen of gloves for
him cost forty-eight shillings, a pair of leather
breeches a guinea and sixpence, and there was due to
the perriwig-maker twelve pounds. Lord Roche being
then a mere boy.f The education of this young lord
seems to have resulted from a petition of Lady Roche,
forwarded in October, 1703, on her failure of relief at
the Court of Claims, by Mr. Canton Haly on her
behalf, to Mr. Secretary Southwell ; wherein she en-
treated " certain monies to send Lord Jftoche's chil-
dren on sight for England, who are in a most forlorn
♦ Old FamUy MSS.
t Southwell MSS. Catal., p. 192.
tyrconnel's horse. 85
condition ; which will be one everlasting deed of cha-
rity, and an eternal obligation upon the family.'^
CAPTAIN NICHOLAS CUSACK.
The origin and early notices of this surname are so
fully given in Sir Bernard Burke's * Landed Gentry,'
that a reference to its pages must satisfy those seek-
ing such information more completely than could any
extended details here. It may yet be observed that
in 1309, Walter de Cusack had special summons to
the parliament of Kilkenny ; that in the same cen-
tury Sir John Cusack, Knight, Lord of Beaupeyr and
Gerardstown in the County of Meath, had also sum-
mons to Parliament ; that he married Joan, eldest
daughter and co-heiress of Sir Simon de Geneville,
Baron of Culmullen in the same County, by whom
he left Sir Simon his eldest son, who was in 1375
himself summoned to Parliament as Baron of Culmul-
len.f That in 1535, Thomas Cusack of Cushings-
town was appointed a justice of the Common Pleas ;
in 1542, made Master of the Rolls ; and in 1546,
Lord Chancellor. In the succeeding years, other
Cusacks filled the highest judicial posts in Ireland.
Throughout all the trials and persecutions of the
Irish Catholics in the seventeenth century, this family
espoused their cause ; and in the Civil War of 1641,
♦ Southwell MSS. Cat., p. 244.
t Burke's Extinct Peerage, p. 706.
86 KING James's irish army list.
six were attainted for their adherence to that reli-
gion and their loyalty to the Stuarts, viz. Christopher
Cusack of MuUevad, and of Ardreagh ; George of
Trimlestown ; Patrick of Gerardstown, and James of
Clonemaghana, all in the County of Meath ; also
Adam Cusack of Monanquill and Henry of Comesal-
lagh, County of Wicklow. In the Supreme Council
of Confederate Catholics at KUkenny sat James
Cusack, who was therefore especially excepted from
pardon for life and estate in Cromwell's Act of 1652,
'*for settling Ireland." The Declaration of Royal
Gratitude, displayed in the Act of Settlement,
only mentions " Mr. Thomas Cusack of Carrick,
County of Kildare." In 1671, Adam Cusack was
Chief Justice of Connaught ; in the following year he
was appointed a Judge of the Common Pleas. King
James's New Charters of 1688 have, in that to
Navan, the names of Nicholas and Christopher Cusack,
Esquires, and of Christopher and Robert Cusack,
Gentlemen, amongst the Burgesses. In that to Trim,
the above Nicholas Cusack was appointed Portreeve;
while James Cusack of Flemingstown, and Francis
and Christopher Cusack, were Burgesses. In the
charter of 1689 to Swords, another Christopher
Cusack was a Burgess, as was Luke Cusack in that
to Kilkenny.
Besides the above Captain Nicholas, there appear in
this Army List, John and Adam Cusack, of the Lis-
mullen line, Ensigns in the Royal Regiment of In-
fantry ; Bartholomew of the Rathaldron line and
Christopher of Corballis, Captains in Lord Slane's ;
tyrconnel's horse. 87
and Robert Cusack of Staffordstown, a Lieutenant in
Colonel Clifford's Dragoons ; while in Burke's
"Landed Gentry" a James Cusack of Clonard is
noticed, as an officer in King James's service at the
battle of the Boyne. In the Parliament of 1689, at
Dublin, Captain Nicholas Cusack, who was nephew of
Tyrconnel, sat as one of the Representatives of Trim ;
while the Borough of Navan was then represented by
the above Christopher of Corballis, and by Christopher
Cusack of Rathaldron ; as was Kells by said Bartholo-
mew Cusack. When, in 1690, King James assumed
to exercise ecclesiastical patronage in Ireland, he
presented Dr. Patrick Cusack to the Rectory of St.
Canice of Duleek, with the Vicarage of St Mary of
Drogheda ; and Dr. Robert Cusack to the Rectories
and Vicarages of Robertstown and KUmainham-wood.
At the Capitulation of Limerick, Nicholas Cusack,
then a Colonel, was an executing party of the Civil
Articles.
The outlawries of 1691 record as attainted Nicholas
Cusack of Cushinstown, James of Fieldstown, Chris-
topher and Bartholomew of Corballis, Patrick of
Philpotstown, Robert of Castletown, Robert, Adam,
and Michael of Gerardstown, Lucas of Brownstown,
aU in the County of Meath ; Philip Cusack of KU-
kenny ; Rowland of Killone, County of Cork ; Nicho-
las of Lough-bryne, County of Down, with Adam
and Christopher of Castletown-Abbey, County of
Meath. At the Court of Chichester House, Robert
Cusack claimed and was allowed a remainder in tail
in various lands and premises in the Counties of
88 KING James's misn army ust.
Dublin, KUdare, &c. of which Nicholas Cusack, the
forfeiting proprietor, had been seized in right of his
wife.
No evidence has been communicated of the fortunes
of Colonel Nicholas, or of the others of his name who
passed over to the Continent; but it is stated by Sir
Bernard Burke, * that of the Gerardstown line
Gerald-Alexander Cusack, Knight of St. Louis, was
a Lieutenant-Colonel in Roth's Brigade. He signal-
ized himself at the battle of Fontenoy in 1745, and
received for his services there a pension of 600 francs ;
he was again distinguished at the battle of Lauffield,
and, after fifty three years' service, died in 1753, S. P.
A Charles Cusack entered the Spanish service in
Lee's Regiment, became Captain-General and Knight
of St. James in Spain, and died Governor of Malatia,
S. P. Lastly, Richard-Edmund Cusack, Marshal
of France, and Knight of the Orders of the King of
France, served at Malplaquet, Minden, &c. and re-
ceived in 1755 the public thanks of that monarch for
his services at Maestricht
CAPTAIN JOHN TALBOT OF BELGARD.
He had been one of the Chiefe of the Pale who at-
tended the great meeting at Swords in 1641, and in
the Declaration of Royal Gratitude, embodied in the
* Burke's Landed Gentry, sup., f. 87.
tykconnel's horse. 89
Act of SettlementJ he, being there described as of
Belgard, a Lieutenant, was included, ^^for reason
known unto us in an especial manner meriting our
grace and favour." For these services he further
obtained a restoration of about half his estates, which
had been seized by the Usurping Powers : of these
however he deemed it prudent to take out a fresh
patent in 1670, which expressly included Belgard.
He was one of the Representatives of the borough of
Newcastle in the Parliament of 1689, and, having
been appointed Lord Lieutenant of the County of
Wicklow, and Commissary-General over this and four
other Counties, he raised and equipped a Regiment of
Cavalry at his own expense, fought at its head at the
battle of the Boyne, and at Aughrim ; and, having
been included in the Articles of Limerick, this fine
old soldier thereby effected the preservation of his
estate. At his advanced age he declined to emigrate,
and, retiring to Belgard, passed the remainder of his
days in the ease and comfort of a competent fortune,
with the consciousness of having served his King and
country to the utmost of his abilities. He married a
daughter of Sir Henry Talbot of Mount-Talbot and
Templeogue, and, having no male heir, he sought, for
his only daughter Catherine, a suitable alliance in the
noble family of Dillon, which took place in 1696 by
her marriage with Thomas Dillon of Brackloon,
grandson of Theobald the first Lord Viscount Dillon
ofCostello-Gallen.*
* D' Alton's Hist. Co. Dublin, p. 708.
90 KING James's misu army list.
LIEUTENANT THOMAS BEATAGH.
In the Fourteenth century, and long after, this name,
which in truth seems to have been of Danish origin,
and anterior to the English invasion, is traced in the
history and records of Meath. In 1382, Henry
Beatagh was appointed one of the two guardians of
the Peace in the Barony of EeUs therein. At
the close of the sixteenth century, William * Betagh '
of Moynalty was married to Anne, daughter of the
sixth Lord Eilleen. In 1610, Edmund Betagh, son
and heir of Christopher of Moynalty deceased^ had
livery of his estate according to the law of wardships.
The outlawries of 1642 included his name as Edmund
Betagh Senior, with Edmund Betagh Junior, and
James Betagh, all of Moynalty, Robert Muyle * Bea-
tagh,' and Patrick Beatagh of Newtown, all in the
County of Meath. The minutes of Courts-Martial
held in St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, in 1651-2-3,
record those held on 20th March, and 23rd April,
1652, on Captain Francis Betagh and other Betaghs.
Of the grants confirmed on the adventurers in
1666, one to Thomas Taylor, of lands in the County of
Meath, contains a saving for Henry Betagh, Christo-
pher, Richard, Lucas, James, Mary, Anne, EUenor,
Margaret, and Jane Betagh, all children of Patrick
Betagh, of such rights as their said father had in cer-
tain lands therein specified, and which had been
decreed to them in 1663. A similar saving of their
tyrconnel's horse. 91
rights was reserved in another patent of Meath lands
to Nicholas Moore, as also in similar patents to James
Stopford, Edward Stubbers, and Henry Morton, all
concerning lands in the same County.
The new Charter, granted by King James to the
borough of Kells, contains the names of four Betaghs,
burgesses, viz. Francis, Thomas, William, and
Henry ; and Thomas Betagh was appointed Town-
clerk.
The outlawries of 1691 describe ^Thomas Beatagh
of Moynalty,' who seems identical with this Lieu-
tenant. Francis Beatagh is also an outlaw, de-
scribed as of the same place. Both of these,
Thomas and Francis, are in a later inquisition de-
scribed as of Gravelstown, County of Meath. William
Betagh Senior and William Betagh Junior, styled of
Lisalkey, County of Down, were also attainted at
this time.
The case of Mr. Francis Betagh of Mojrnalty, as
iniquitously affected by the Acts of Settlement, is
especially recorded in Mr. O'Callaghan's 'Irish Bri-
gades,' where it is stated that his grandson, the
Chevalier de Betagh, was a Captain in Fitz-James's
Regiment of Horse, previous to the battle of Fontenoy,
and was living with the title of Count in 1775.* It
appears from the notes in Hardiman's Irish Minstrelsy,
vol. 1, that some members of the Moynalty Beataghs
settled at Mannin in the County of Mayo, where a
daughter of Captain Gerald Dillon, becoming the
♦ O'Callaghan's Brigades, v. 1 p. 94.
92 KINO JAMES'S IRISH A&MT LIST.
wife of James Betagh, was the object of one of Carolan's
poetical efiusions.
LIEUTENANT CHARLES KING.
It would seem that this officer was a relative of
George King, theretofore proprietor of the town and
manor of Clontarj^ whose house and town Sir Charles
Coote burned and wasted with his wonted cruelty.
The outrage, which, as Borlase writes, was "excel-
lently well executed," was attempted to be justified
by an allegation that Mr. King had been one of the
gentlemen of the Pale who had previously assembled
at Swords, and who had further abetted the pillaging
of a ship. This King was immediately after attainted,
a reward of £400 offered for his head, and his estates,
comprising the manor and island of Clontarf, with
Hollybrook, were granted to John Blackwell, a favour-
ite of Oliver Cromwell, who assigned to John Vernon,
the ancestor of the present proprietor.* Lodge
relates that Captain James Brabazon, son of Sir
Anthony Brabazon, was killed in 1676 by a Charles
King.t
The attainders of 1642 have but one of this sur-
name, George King, described as of Galtrim, County
of Meath. Those of 1691 exhibit only John King of
♦ D'Alton's Hist. Co. Dub. p. 89.
f Arohdairs Lodge's Peerage, vol. 5, p. 274.
tyrconnel's horse. 93
Boyle, and Henry otherwise Martin King of Galway.
A Thomas King was Prebendary of Swords in
1703 ; and in 1776, a Charles King was one of the
Kepresentatives of that Borough.
CORNET EDMUND BUTLER.
The notices applicable to this great historic name
are collected at tiie ensuing Horse Regiment of Vis-
count Galmoy ; it may, however, be here observed,
that this officer appears to have been the same Ed-
mund Butler, who, when Dominick Sheldon, the
Lieutenant-Colonel of TyrconneFs Horse, formed a
Brigade in the service of France, appointed him, his
old companion in arms, a major.* The gallant ser-
vices of that force on the Continent are hereinbefore
briefly alluded to, under the names of * Berwick' and
^Sheldon.'
CORNET EDMUND HARNEY.
He appears to have been of the County of Wicklow,
and, although his own outlawry is not mentioned on
the roll of attainders, there do appear there Matthew
and Thomas Harney, both described of Wicklow.
The name of * Hemy ' (John, and Margaret his
* O'Conor's Military Memoirs, p. 197.
94 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
wife) is of record in the Chancery rolls of Ireland in
1325 ; and in 1381, Thomas Herny was an ofl&cer of
the customs in Waterford and Cork.
QUARTER MASTER PETER CASINONE.
This individual is expressly described as he appears
on this List, in Tyrconnell's Regiment, in the report
of the wounded at the Boyne, given in Berwick's
Memoir ; though, according to Walker's Diary, &c.
(p. 60), ' Quarter Master Casinone ' was killed at the
previous siege of Deny.
QUARTER MASTER JOHN BRYAN.
Sm Thomas Loftus, who died in 1636, left with other
issue a daughter Jane, who had married John Bryan
of Whiteswell, alias Bawnmore, and had issue by
him four sons, the youngest of whom, John Bryan,*
seems identical with this Quarter Master. Alderman
James Bryan, of Jenkinsto^vn, was one of the Repre-
sentatives for the City of Kilkenny in the Parliament
of 1689 ; and a Walter Bryan, described as of Akipp,
in the Queen's County, was attainted in 1701.
* Archdall's Lodge's Peerage, vol. 7, p. 355.
galhot's horse.
95
Captaint,
The Colonel.
REGIMENTS OF HORSE.
PIERS, LORD VISCOUNT GALMOY'S.
lAduimants. Comets. Quarter-masten.
Richard OxVisglL Ambrose GarrolL John Kelly.
Laurence Dempsej, ^
let Lieat.-Col. I
VMathew Cooke.
[Charles Carroll, ft
2nd Lieut-Col] ^
Robert Arthur,
Mijor.
James Mathews.
Henry Fleming, Qeoige Qemon.
brother to Lord
Slane.
Lord Baron Trim- Patrick Kearney.
Isfton.
Anthony Dnlhnnty. Qeorge Cooke.
Morgan Ryan.
Jefiry Burke. Piers Butler.
Roger O'Connor. Robert Molloy.
Ifidiael Bourke.
Edward Butler.
James Bryan.
PieFB Butler.
[Denis O'Keny.]
Laurence Fitzgerald. Lewis Welsh.
Edmund Butler. James PurceH
Mathew Roche. John Smith.
Thomas Dwyer.
Oliver Welsh.
QeflBryBnike.
James Butler.
James Shoe.
Charles O'Connor.
H ftlSC iAlf£8*8 IRISH ARMY LIST.
MEBS BUTLER, LORD VISCOUNT GALMOY.
Of this great historic family, whose annals in the bio-
grqihy of but one individual have extended over three
large folio volumes, the notices for this work must be
necessarily circumscribed within the limits fore-
marked in the Prospectus.
The influence and conduct of the great Ormonde
prevented the attainder of any one of his name in
1642, with the exception of John Butler, an obscure
miller of Westpalstown, County Dublin. Some indi-
viduals of the name however attended the memorable
assembly of the Confederate Catholics at Kilkenny
in 1646. Of the Temporal Peers on that occasion
were Richard Butler, Viscount Mountgarret ; Piers
Butler, Viscount Ikerrin ; and Edward Butler, Vis-
count Galmoy. Of the Commons were Edmond But-
ler of Idough, Piers of Banshagh, James of Swyneene,
John of Foulsterstown, Piers of Barrowmount, Piers
of Cahir and Walter Butler of Paulstown. The afore-
said Lord Mountgarret was not overlooked in Crom-
well's Act for settling Ireland ; he, with James Butler,
Earl of Ormonde, was especially excepted from par-
don for life and estate.
The Act of Settlement of 1662, in its clause of
Royal Gratitude for services rendered the exiled Roy-
alists beyond the seas, includes the names of Viscount
Mountgarret, Viscount Ikerrin, Viscount Galmoy and
Lord Dunboyne ; with Ensign Walter Butler of
galmoy's horse. 97
Shanbally, Ensign Pierce (Duff) Butler of Tipperary,
Ensign Theobald Butler of Barnane in said County,
Lieut.-Colonel William Butler of Ballyfooky, Captain
Stephen Butler, Captain Walter Butler, Captain
Theobald and Ensign Thomas Butler. The same Act
contained also savings from its confiscations, of the
estates of Colonel Richard Butler, of Thomas Butler
of Kilconnel, of Butler, son of Theobald, son of
James Butler of Derryluscan, County of Tipperary,
and of Richard Butler of Ballynakill in same County ;
of Lord Dunboyne's and Lord Mountgarref s, and also a
saving for James (then) Duke of Ormonde and his
Duchess, of their lands. The latter were fiirther con-
firmed in "their parts of the regicides' estates, ex-
cepted out of the Duke of York's confirmation."
In May, 1686, the above Viscount Galmoy was
added to the Privy Council.* On the establish-
ment of 1687-8, Viscount Ikerrin is mentioned as
having an allowance of £235 4s., as Captain of the
Grenadiers, with an addition of £100 charged on
the pension list; while the Lord Baron of Dunboyne is
set down on the latter list for another £100. In
King James's New Charters of 1687 et seq. Theobald
Butler was appointed of the Common Council of
Dublin. In that to Clonmel, James Butler, mer-
chant, was named Mayor ; James Butler, Junior, an
Alderman ; Theobald Butler a free burgess ; another
Theobald, Recorder ; and Theobald Fitz-James Butler
• Singer's Correspondence of Loid Clarendon, v. 1, p. 400.
U
98 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
Town Clerk. — In that to Cashel, James Butler and
James Fitz-Richard Butler were Burgesses. — In Bal-
linakill's, John Butler was one of the Burgesses. — In
Kilkenny's, Lord Viscount Mountgarret and Thomas
Butler were Aldermen. — In New Ross, Thomas But-
ler was appointed one of the Bailiflfe, and Walter and
Richard were Burgesses. — In Callan, John and
Walter Butler were Burgesses ; In Gowran, this Vis-
count Galmoy was at the head of the Burgess Roll,
William Butler being another thereon. Lord Gal-
moy also headed the Burgess Roll for Thomastown,
with WiUiam Butler for a Burgess. He was likewise
first on the Charter to Old Leighlin, where Richard
Butler was another Burgess. In that to Wexford,
Walter Butler was an Alderman. In Derry, Robert
Butler was one of the Burgesses, as was James Butler
in that to Fethard, Walter Butler in that to Ennis-
corthy, and Edward and Thomas Butler in that to
Knocktopher.
On the present Muster Roll : — In this Regiment,
besides the Colonel, Edward and Piers Butler were
Captains, Edmund Butler a Lieutenant, and Piers
and James Butler Quarter-masters. — In TyrconneVs
Horse, Edmund and James were, as before mentioned.
Comets. — In Sarsfield's, Edward and Piers were Lieu-
tenants.— In Colonel Nicholas Purcell's, James Butler
of Dunboyne was a Captain, Theobald a Lieutenant,
and another James a Cornet. — In Lord Dongan's
Dragoons, Piers Butler was a Comet. In the Earl of
Tyrone's Infantry, Edward Butler was a Captain. —
galmoy's horse. 99
Robert was a Captain in Colonel Cormuck O'Neiirs.
— In Sir Neill O'Neiirs, William was a Captain, ss
was Walter in the Earl of Clancarty's. — In Lord
Eilmallock's, Richard was a Captain, James a Lieu-
tenant, and Toby Butler an Ensign. — In Major
General Boiseleau's, Thomas Butler was a Lieutenant.
— In Colonel John Grace's, Edmund was a Captain,
another Edmund a Lieutenant, and John Butler was
an Ensign. — In Colonel Dudley Bagnall's, Edmund
was a Lieutenant, and Thomas and Edward were En-
signs.— In Sir Michael Creagh's, Edmund was a Cap-
tain, as was another Edmund in Colonel Owen Mac
Carty's. — Colonel Thomas Butler had a Regiment en-
tirely of his own 'raising,' in which James and Rich-
ard Butler were Captains ; so had Colonel Edward
Butler, in which two Edmunds Butler and one John
were commissioned. — In Colonel John Barrett's, John
Butler was a Captain, and lie may probably be identi-
fied with the 'Colonel' John Butler, who commanded
a troop of Grenadiers at Aughrim, was there taken
prisoner, and so committed to the Tower in 1695.*
Previous to the forming of this Muster Roll, a George
Butler was Captain in Colonel Fairfax's, a then exist-
ing Regiment ; and of him the Earl of Clarendon, in
January, 1685, wrote, that he had "served abroad
when the late King had forces in Flanders, and had
as good a character as any young man can have ;"
* Singers Correspondence of Lord Clarendon, v. 2, p. 893.
H 2
100 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
but he was killed in the following year, by Captain
Twisleton of Sir Thomas Newcomen's Regiment.*
At the close of the year 1688, Lord Galmoy came
to Belturbet, and made an unsuccessful attempt to
besiege the Castle of Crom ; he was repulsed by the
Enniskilleners, who had thrown succours into itf
This Peer was one of the Privy Council, who a short
time previously caused proclamations to issue from the
Council Chamber of Dublin against meetings of dis-
aflfected persons, "in a riotous and warlike manner
assembled;" who, according to informations received
by the Lord Deputy, "have taken upon them to fortify
themselves by possessing of places of strength, and
dividing themselves into Troops and Companies, pro-
viding themselves of arms and ammunition ;" and the
Lord Deputy and Council thereby ordered all persons
80 assembled to disperse, or that directions shall be
given to proceed against any defaulters as for high
treason. In further relation to this family, it may
be here noted that a Regiment, commanded by
Colonel Richard Butler, was one of those sent by
King James to France in exchange for the French
auxiliaries.
In the Roll of the memorable Parliament of Dublin
(1689), appear of this name in the Upper House the
above Piers, Viscount Galmoy, Viscount Mountgar-
rett. Viscount Ikerrin, Lords Dunboyne and Cahir ;
while in the Commons sat Walter Butler as one of
♦ Singer's Correspondence of Lord Clarendon, v.l, pp. 207, 336.
t Hamilton's Enniskilleners, p. 10, <&c.
galmoy's horse. 101
the representatives of the Borough of Callan, Richard
for that of Gowran, Walter of Munfine for the
County of Wexford, Richard for the County of Wick-
low, Theobald of Strathnagallen for Enniscorthy,
James of Grangebeg for the County of Tipperary, and
Richard for the Borough of New Ross.
On the 4th of July, in the year of this Parliament,
Lord Viscount Mountgarret led the forlorn hope of Horse
against Deny, when he was taken prisoner. " The
besieged took three colours of Colonel Butler into the
town, and have them."* It may be added that, after
the Revolution, in October, 1692, this Peer laid claim
to his seat in Parliament, and took the oath of allegi-
ance, but, being required to take that of supremacy,
he refused so to do, declaring it was not agreeable
to his conscience, whereupon he was ex*cludedf .
Crossley, in his " Peerage of Ireland,'' published in
1725, has an absurd story, that this Lord Viscount
Galmoy was obliged to do public penance in St. Wer-
burgh's Church, Dublin, " for some insolent or ill action
committed by him in that Church, but that he after-
wards left Ireland with King James." As the latter
part of this story is erroneous, the whole may be con-
sidered apocryphal. Lord Galmoy, so far fram going
oflF with King James, remained with his Regiment to
the last, was taken prisoner at Aughrim, and, havfng
been exchanged, was one of the contracting parties on
the Irish side to the Treaty of Limerick, 3rd October,
1691.'
♦ Thorpe's Cat. SouthweU MSS., p. 188.
t Graham's Derriana, p. 37.
102 KING James's irish army list.
In the outlawries of 1691, et seq. Viscount Gal-
moy was attainted on six inquisitions in Dublin,
Westmeath, Kilkenny, Wexford, Tyrone and King's
County. — Richard Viscount Mountgarret on four, in
Kildare, Kilkenny, Wexford and Londonderry. — Two
on Lord Dunboyne, in Clare and Meath. — One on
John Butler, son of Lord Galmoy. — On James Butler
in the latter County. — On Tobias and Theobald in
Dublin. — In Wexford on Walter, senior and junior,
and Edmund of Munfyne, Richard of New Ross, Ed-
ward of Leckan, and James of Ballyborough. — In
Kilkenny on Walter of Callan, Edmund of Bally-
ragget, Edward of Flemingstown, William of Bram-
blestown, Edward Fitz-Edward of Fiertagh, Richard of
Low Grange, Peter of Kilkenny, Edward Fitz-Rich-
ard of Kilkenny, Piers of Coolmanan, and on Thomas
and Richard of Garry ricken. — In Tipperary, on
James Butler of Grangebeg. — In Carlow, on Richard
of Rahalin and Edward of Dunganstown. — In Water-
foni on Edward and John of Ballynaclogh ; on Tobias
of Knockanebuy, James of Kilcorr, and William of
Munvehogg. — In the Queen's County, on Richard
and Edward of Kilderrick, and on William of Car-
ran: and lastly, in the County of Roscommon, on
James Butler of Coneragh. Lord Galmoy 's forfeitures
alone comprised nearly 10,000 acres plantation mea-
sui^ in the County of Kilkenny, and about half that
qiuuitity in the Barony of Bantry, County of Wex-
fi^ni. The^>hjdd Butler, seventh Baron of Cahir. was
galmoy's horse. 103
also outlawed, but his attainder was reversed in 1693,
and his Lordship restored to his estates.*
While King James was in Dublin, on the 10th of
May, previous to the battle of the Boyne, he gave
licence to the Lady Butler and her sisterhood of the
order of St. Benedict, to found a Nunnery in that
City for themselves and their successors, under the
name and style of " the Abbess and Convent of our
Royal Monastery of St. Benedict, called Gratia Dei."
At the battle of Landen, fought 29th July, 1693,
the Duke of Ormonde (who, according to Clarendon,!
after King James had gone to bed at Andover, 26th
November, 1688, turned over to William) was
wounded and taken prisoner fighting on the English
side. J At the Court of Claims in 1700, (Jeorge
Butler claimed an estate tail in Ballyraggett, County
of Kilkenny, forfeited by Edmund Butler ; he also
sought and was allowed a remainder in tail in Cranagh,
County of Kilkenny, forfeited by Edward Butler ; as
did James Butler a similar remainder in Tipperary
lands, late the estate of James Butler, but his petition
was dismist. Another James Butler, a merchant,
claimed the absolute fee of various lands in the
County of Carlow, forfeited by Viscount Galmoy.
John Butler, as surviving devisee and Executor of
Colonel Walter Butler of Garryricken, claimed and
was allowed a mortgage afiecting Tipperary lands of
* Burke's Peerage, p. 434.
t Singers Correspondence of Lord Clarendon.
X Rawdon Papers, p. 377.
104 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
Lord Dunboyne ; and Walter Butler petitioned for
and was allowed mortgages affecting Lord Galmoy's
estates in the County of Kilkenny ; while Theobald
Butler, *CounseUor at Law' was a claimant on lands
forfeited by 'the late Lord Clare.'
The name of this last claimant is entitled to especial
notice, deeply and influentially as he was projected in
the affairs of the period. He was the advising Counsel
in all the negotiations for the Capitulation of
Limerick, and an executing party to the Civil Arti-
cles. Accordingly, when, in violation of these Arti-
cles, the "Act against the further growth of Popery"
was devised, he, with Sir Stephen Rice and Coun-
sellor Malone, appeared at the Bar of the Irish House
of Commons, to protest against its provisions, as a
direct attempt to infringe on one or other of these
Articles, which he held in his hand, presented to the
House, and commented upon with thrilling but inef-
fective eloquence.* He was buried in St. James's
Churchyard, Dublin, the great Catholic burial-place
at that time and long subsequently ; where, in the
centre of that graveyard, a tall monument was
erected, with a large mural slab inserted, and in-
scribed with his commemoration.
Sir Piers Butler, the fourth Viscount Ikerrin, was
knighted and constituted a member of King James's
Council, for which distinctions and his services to
that monarch he was attainted, but afterwards ob-
* Dr. Curry gives full notes of his argiunents, Hist. Rev. vii.
pp. 237, 386 to 397.
galmoy's horse. 105
tained a reversal thereof, and in October, 1698, took
his seat in the House of Peers.
The Abbe Geoghegan, in his Histoire de Vlrelande^
acknowledges that the accounts which he gave of this
campaign were amongst other sources derived from a
journal left by the late Edmund Butler of Kilcop,
who was Marshal-General of the Cavalry of Ireland,
and was the more worthy of credence as he had him-
self seen what he wrote of. He died, adds the Abbe,
in 1725, at Saint Germain-en-Laye, Field Marshal of
the Cavalry in the French service. On the first
formation of the Irish Brigades in France, this Ed-
mund Butler was a Major in what was styled the
* King's Regiment ;' while the above Lord Galmoy
was Colonel of the ' Queen's Own.' Rene de Came,
a Frenchman, was his Lieutenant-Colonel, and James
Tobin his Major. This latter Regiment comprised
two squadrons, four companies, six Lieutenants, and
six Comets. For the services of this Brigade on the
Continent in 1701, and the succeeding years, see
notices ante^ page 24, &c., at Berwick's, with which this
co-operated. In the movements of the Italian cam-
paigns of 1703 and 1706, Galmo/s Regiment was
likewise distinguished.* In 1715, it was drafted
into Dillon's.
At the battle of Lauffield in 1747, Piers Butler, a
Lieutenant in Lally's Brigade, was badly wounded ;
while another Piers Butler, in Bulkeley's, was taken
prisoner.!
• See O'Conor's Military Memoirs, p. 234, &c.
t Gent. Mag. ad ann, p. 377.
106 RING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
LIEUTENANT COLONEL LAURENCE
DEMPSEY.
The O'Dempseys were Chiefs of Clan-MaoUughra
(Glenmalira) a territory extending over part of the
King's and Queen's Counties ; and, on the Chancery
RoUs after the English invasion, are recorded sundry
licenses and mandates to the Lords-Lieutenant of Ire-
land, to treat and parley with the sept of ' CDymsy.'
When Edward the Second meditated his invasion
of Scotland in 1314, he directed a special letter mis-
sive to ' Fyn O'Dymsy,' for his aid. Necessarily
passing over remoter annals of this powerful Irish
sept, it appears that in 1615, James the First
directed a surrender to be received from Terence
O'Dempsey of premises in the King's and Queen's
Counties, with the object of regranting same to him
in tail male, remainder in tail male to Dermot Mac
Hugh O'Dempsey, reversion still in the Crown. The
Clan continued Lords of this their recognised terri-
tory until the attainders of 1641 and 1688 shook
them from their inheritance. Those denounced on
the former occasion were Lewis Dempsey of Baskets-
town, Robert of Ballybeg, James of Tully (Clerk),
Dominick also of Tully, Edmund ' Dempsie' of Kil-
dare, and Henry Dempsy of Ballybrittas, all in the
County of Kildare.
In the Assembly of Confederate Catholics at Kil-
kenny, in 1646, Edmund O'Dempsey, Bishop of
galmoy's horse. - 107
Leighlin, was of the Spiritual Peers ; while of the
Temporal was Lewis O'Dempsey, Viscount ' Clanma-
lier ;' and Barnabas Dempsey of Clonehork was of the
Commons. Cromwell's Act of 1652 excepted the
above Viscount Lewis, as also Lysagh O'Dempsey of
the King's County, from pardon for life and estate ;
and the Declaration of Boyal Gratitude, promulgated
in the Act of Settlement (1662), includes only an
* Ensign Phelim Dempsey.' In the List of Pensions
on the Irish establishment, 1687-8, appear the names
of Mrs. Anne Dempsey for £150, and of Mr. James
Dempsey for £50 per annum.
Besides Colonel Laurence Dempsey, Thomas Demp-
sey is in this Army List a Lieutenant in Sarsfield's
Horse ; while two other Colonels of the name were in
the service, though not in this List, Lieutenant-Colonel
Francis Dempsey (of whom hereafter), and Colonel
James ; of which latter the Earl of Clarendon writes
to Rochester, in January, 1685 : — "The Providence
is cast away upon the coast of Carlingford, and but
one man of all the Company saved. In her were
Colonel Dempsey's horses and servants, and all his
goods, which, I doubt, will almost undo the poor
man.''* And again writes the same Earl : — " I have
known him for many years, and always for a man of
honour, and a good oflScer ; and I do not in the least
doubt his integrity and sincerity."! In the ensuing
* Singers Correspondence of Clarendon, v. 1, p. 214.
t Idem, V. 2, p. 130.
108 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
April, this Colonel himself arrived in Ireland.* His
name will be found included in the subsequent extract
of 1688 outlawries.
King James's Charters of 1687 have Charies
Dempsey a burgess in that to Kildare, and James
Dempsey, the Colonel, in that to Athy. In his Par-
liament of 1689 sat Maximilian O'Dempsey, then
Viscount Clanmalier, the Great-grandson of Sir
Terence O'Dempsey, who was knighted in May, 1599,
by Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, Lord Lieu-
tenant of Ireland; he was in 1631 created Baron
of Philipstown and Viscount Clanmalier, and died in
the following year. His son and heir, Anthony ,f was
the father of Lewis, above mentioned, who also died
in 1 683, when Maximilian, the Peer of King James's
parliament succeeded. This Sovereign constituted
him Lord Lieutenant of the Queen's County.
On Sunday, the 22nd June, 1690, (eight days
previous to the battle of the Boyne), King James
gained what was construed an omen of success, in a
skirmish with a detachment of his Royal rival's forces,
which had been despatched to reconnoitre what lines
of march would be most advisable for King William's
advance ; and, *' it being observed," say the Royal
Memoirs, " that every night the latter sent a party
to a pass called the Half-way Bridge, to press a guard
of Horse and Dragoons which King James had there
between Dundalk and Newry, this King ordered out
* Singer's Correspondence of Clarendon, v. 1, p. 341.
t Crossley's Peerage, p. 115.
galmoy'3 horse. 109
a party of Horse and Foot, under the command of
Colonel Dempsey and Lieutenant-Colonel Fitz-gerald,
to lie in ambuscade, and if possible to surprise them ;
which was performed with such success, that the
enemy's force of 200 Foot and 60 Dragoons fell into it
at break of day, and were most of them cut off ; the
four captains that commanded and most of the sub-
alterns being either killed or taken prisoners, with
the loss of a few common men. On the King's side,
only Colonel Dempsey himself was wounded ; but he
died in two or three days after." His namesake.
Viscount Maximilian, died in the same year with the
Colonel, S. P., as did his widow (who had been one of
the co-heiresses of John Bermingham of Dunfiert)
within a few years after. — Lieutenant Colonel Francis
distinguished himself in the defence of Limerick,
where, in the last days of the siege (22nd Sept.
1691), he, together with Lieutenant-Colonel Edward
Hurley and Major Matthew French, was taken
prisoner, as was also Colonel James Skelton, who
died soon aft«r of his wounds.* The outlawries of
1691 exhibit the names of Laurence Dempsey of
Drynanstown, County of Kildare, and Colonel James
' Dempsy ' of Moone, in said County ; the latter for-
feited a moiety of the manor of Moone therein, and
upwards of 300 acres in the Barony of Moydow,
County of Longford. He also lost on his attainder
certain interests in Meath, off which his widow, Ho-
nora Dempsey, and his daughter Mary sought respec-
* Story's Impartial History, part 2, p. 225.
110 KING James's irish army list.
tively jointure and portion at the Court of Claims, but
both their petitions were dismist. Dr. Mac Dermott,
in his notes on the Four Masters (Geraghty's Edition,
p. 248), suggests that Terence O'Dempsey of this
family settled in Cheshire, and died in 1769, leaving
issue still extant in or about Liverpool. — William
Dempsey, ' a Roman Catholic,' one of the state prison-
ers in the service of Prince Charles-Edward, was
executed at York in 1746.*
CAPTAIN LORD BARON TRIMLESTON.
One of the Knights who accompanied the Conqueror
into England was Le Sieur de Barneville,
Barneville et Berners,
Cheyne et Chalers,
as old Bromton quaintly links the Roll of that warlike
importation. The family was early distinguished in
the Crusades, and extended itself over large pos-
sessions in England. At the commencement of the
thirteenth century, Ulfran de Barneville obtained
estates in ' the Vale of Dublin,' which his posterity
held until the reign of James the First, when they
were granted principally to Adam Loftus. In the
previous annals of the Pale, this family was much
projected ; members of the name were frequently sum-
moned to Parliaments and Great Councils, and were
* Gent. Mag. v. 16, p. 614.
galmoy's horse. hi
sdected for the highest judicial situations. In 1435,
Christopher Bamewall of Crickstown was appointed
Chief Justice of the King's Bench in Irelwid, (his
mother was daughter of the celebrated Lord Fumi-
val). In 1461, Nicholas Bamewall was appointed
Chief Justice of the Common Pleas ; he was the lineal
ancestor of the present Sir Reginald Aylmer Barnewall,
and brother to Robert Barnewall, who in the follow-
ing year was constituted a Lord of Parliament by
the above title, Baron of Trimleston, to hold said
dignity in tail male. In 1487, Christopher, the
second Lord, was one of the Irish magnates who,
deceived by the pretensions of Lambert Simnel, as-
sisted at his coronation in Christ Church, Dublin ; but
soon after, on unreserved submission, he received his
pardon. In 1504, this Lord, under the command of
the Earl of Kildare, then Lord Deputy of Ireland,
defeated the Lord of Thomond, Ulick Burke, O'Carrol,
and others of their party at the great battle of Knock-
tow, near Galway.* In 1534, John, the third Baron
of Trimlestown, was raised to the woolsack ; and three
years afl«r was selected to open a parley with O'Neill,
on which occasion he succeeded in making peace.
In 1563, and for years after. Sir Christopher
Bamewall of Turvey was the popular leader of the
Irish Parliament ; he died at Turvey in 1575,
"the lamp and light as well of his house as of
that part of Ireland wherein he dwelt ; zealously
bent to the reformation of his country ; measuring,"
* D' Alton s Droghcda, v. 2, p. 181.
112 KING JAMES'8 IRISH ARMY LIST.
adds the record, " all his affairs with the safety
of conscience, as true as steel, close and secret,
fast to his friend, stout in a good quarrel, a great
householder, sparing without pinching, spending with-
out wasting, of nature mild, rather choosing to plea-
sure where he might harm, than willing to harm where
he might pleasure."* Within the old church of Lusk,
near the family mansion of Turvey, stood a noble
monument commemorative of him and his Lady, who
afterwards married Sir Lucas Dillon of Moymet,
County of Meath. The tomb was erected in a section
of the religious house, which, since the Reformation,
was appropriated for the service of the Established
Church. Sir Christopher is represented on the
monument in a rich suit of armour, his head bare,
and his hands joined over his breast in a devotion-
al posture, his feet resting on the body of a grey-
hound. His Lady lies beside him, her cap round,
her ruffles high, her gown thickly plaited round the
waist, puffed on the shoulders, and richly embroidered;
her petticoat is designed as of cloth of gold, and from
her girdle hangs a chain of superior workmanship,
to which is appended a scapular two inches square ;
at her feet, which can scarcely be distinguished, is
placed a lapdog. Her hands, like those of her bus-
band, are crossed devoutly on her bosom, and the
head of each reposes on an embroidered pillow : the
sides are sculptured with armorials of the Dillons and
* Annals of the Four Masters.
galmoy's horse. 118
BamewaJls.* The whole of this fine piece of sculp-
ture was smothered up since the Refonnation, by the
steps and platform into a pulpit, which rested on the
&ce of the monument, and were so when the work
cited below was drawn up. A new church has been
since erected, and the monument now stands relieved
of the disfiguring woodwork, outside the walls of the
new edifice, but perhaps not less exposed to mutilation
and decay.
In the Parliament convened by Sir John Perrot,
which the native chiefe were first invited to attend,
Lord Trimleston sat as a Baron, while John Bamewall
was one of the Representatives for Drogheda, Robert
Barnewall for Ardee, and Richard Bamewall for the
County of Meath. In 1605, Sir Patrick Bamewall,
the active agent of the Recusants, was, on account of
his zeal in their service, sent over to London, and
committed to the Tower.f At the hill of Crofty,
where the Civil war of 1641 first broke out, on the
summons of Lord Gormanston, who had taken an
active part in the politics of the day. Lord Trimleston,
five other Peers of the Pale, Sir Patrick Barnewall,
and Patrick Bamewall of Kilbrae, with one thousand
others of its leading gentry, were, according to
a preconcerted arrangement, there met by Roger
Moore and others, the leaders of the Ulster move-
ment, attended by a detachment of their forces ; when
an interesting parley took place, which may be seen
as below referred to.J It was then that, affecting a
• D'Alton's Co. Dub. p. 415. f Idem, p. 306.
t D'Alton's Hist. Drogheda, v. 2, p. 457.
I
114 KING James's irish army list.
show of confidence in these Palesmen, the Lords Just-
ices and Council directed a commission for the
government of the County of Dublin, to Nicholas
Bamewall, who was of the Turvey line, and repre-
sented that County in the Parliament of 1639.
On the attainders of 1642, are the names of Mat-
thew Bamewall of Bremore, County of Dublin ; Sir
Richard Bamewall and Christopher Bamewall of
Creekstown, County of Meath ; William of Stephens-
town ; George of Seneschalstown, County of Wicklow ;
Richard and Francis of Lis^wbel, County of Dublin ;
Andrew Bamewall of Lusk, Andrew of Kilbrue,
Richard of Trimlestown, Simon of Cooledarry, Rich-
ard and Robert of Rossetown, James of Rathregan,
George of Spracklestown, County of Meath, and
Gerald of Robertstown, ditto. Amongst the Con-
federates of Kilkenny in 1646 were George Bame-
wall of Creekstown, Henry Bamewall of Castle-
rickard, James and Sir Richard Bamewall of Creeks-
town. This last was denounced by Cromwell's Act
of 1652, and transplanted into Connaught ; but the
Act of Settlement provided for the restoration of his
estates, as also for those of Lord Trimleston, who had
been likewise denounced by Cromwell. These two
Baraewalls were included in the Royal Thanks' clause
of that statute.
In King James's Charters, John Bamewall was
named Recorder of Dublin, Matthew Bamewall one
of its Aldermen, and Nicholas a Burgess. Richard
was a Burgess in that to Carysfort ; while in that
oalmoy's horse. 115
to Swords, Lord Kingslainl headed tlie Koll, and
Robert, Richard, James, and Nicholas Barnewall
were named Burgesses. Loi-d Trimleston was at
the head of the Municipal Roll of Trim, on which
Francis and Nicholas Barnewall were subsequently
named Burgesses. In that to Kells, Francis Barne-
wall was a Burgess, and James in that to Mary-
borough. These two Lords, Trimleston and Kings-
land, sat amongst the Peers in the Parliament of
1689 ; while in the Commons, Francis Barnewall of
Woodpark, County of Meath, was one of the Repre-
sentatives of the Borough of Swords ; as was Sir
Patrick Barnewall one for the County of Meath. In
the Pension List of 1687-8, the name of Lonl Trim-
leston appears for a pension of £100 per annum,
which may explain the occurrence of this represent-
ative of so ancient a family being but a Captain in
the Regiment. In the Royal Infantry, William
Fitz-William Barnewall was a Lieutenant, while Ro-
bert Barnewall was an Ensign. In FitzJames's,
James Barnewall was a Lieutenant ; in the Earl of
Westmeath's, Miles was an Ensign ; and in Tyi-con-
nel's, as shown before, George and Nicholas Barnewall
were Lieutenants. At the siege of Derry, a Captain
and an Ensign Barnewall were killed.*
The attainders of 1691 include Matthew, I^)rd
Trimleston, by three Inquisitions, one in Meath and
two in Kildare ; Patrick and Richard Barnewall of
Newcastle, County of Meath ; Matthew of Archers-
♦ Walker's Derry, p. 61.
1 2
116 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
town and Cruiserath ; Henry of Kilmainham,
Dominick and Sylvester of Arrolstown, Christopher
of Portlester and Moylough, Bartholomew and Patrick
of Crickstown, Simon and Patrick of Kilbrue, Nicholas
of Begstown, James of Dunbro', George Bamewall
(son of the Countess Dowager of Fingal) of Westown ;
John of Dublin, Knight ; Robert Bamewall of Dublin,
Alderman ; Nicholas Bamewall of Dublin, merchant ;
and George of Rathesker, County of Louth.
At the Court of Claims, Bridget Bamewall claimed
a rent-charge on Trimlestown ; Thomasina Bamewall,
alias Preston, claimed an estate in fee in King's
County lands, forfeited by Sir John Bamewall ; Eliza
Bamewall, dower off all the lands forfeited by Matthew
Bamewall ; Cicely Bamewall, alias Hussey, widow,
jointure off forfeitures of Dominick Bamewall. On the
latter forfeitures, John Bamewall claimed interests on
behalf of himself and five children of his second
brother ; his claims were, however, dismist ; while
John Bamewall, " called Lord Trimleston," claimed
and was allowed a remainder in tail on Trimlestown,
forfeited by Matthias, Lord Trimlestown, subject to a
claim of Mary Bamewall for a portion.
On the formation of the Irish Brigade in France,
Alexander Bamewall was constituted Lieutenant-
Colonel in Lord Clare's * Queen's Dismounted Dra-
goons,' * while, about the same time. Lord Tiimleston
had three sons in foreign service, Thomas in France,
James in Spain, and Anthony, who went into
* O^Conor^s Military Memoirs, p. 198.
galmot's horse. 117
Germany at the age of seventeen, in General Hamil-
ton's Regiment of Cuirassiers. He was engaged in
every battle against the Turks until cut down at the
battle of Critzka in 1739.
In 1745, amongst the adherents of the Stuart
dynasty, who were crossing the sea for the expedition
into Scotland, Lieutenant George Bamewall, of
Berwick's Regiment, was taken prisoner off Montrose,
on board the * Louis the Fifteenth,' by the * Milford ;'
as was another Lieutenant Bamewall on board the
Charit^, in 1746. Lieutenants William, Edward,
and Basil Bamewall were also captured at sea, being
enrolled in the same service. At the battle of Lauf-
field, in 1747, Captain Bryan Bamewall, being then
in Clare's Regiment, was killed ; while in Berwick's,
Captains Edward and Thomas Bamewall were badly
wounded.* In 1795, Lord Trimleston, father of the
present Peer, obtained an absolute reversal of the out-
lawry which affected the title in his line.
[ CAPTAIN DENIS O'KELLT. ]
Tms young officer was, as particularly noted in Mr.
O'Callaghan's ably edited Exddium Macarioe^ the
son and heir of Colonel Charles O'Kelly of Screen,
County of Galway, the author of that work. That
fisither was the eldest son of John O'Kelly, bom in
1621, educated at St. Omer ; and when, in twenty
* G«nt. Mag., ad ann.j p. 377.
118 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
years after, the great Civil war broke out, he was
called over to Ireland to support the Royal cause, he,
by his services on that momentous occasion, so
deeply incurred the odium and hostility of the usurp-
ing power, that in prudence he expatriated himself
to Spain,bringing with him thither two thousand of his
countrymen. In that country he for a time served
the interest of Charles the Second, whom he after-
wards followed to France, where a Kegiment was
formed chiefly of his own officers and Irish soldiers,
and which he was commissioned to command. Thence
he returned to Spain, on Charles being obliged to seek
protection there ; and remained in the latter country
until the Restoration, when he came to live in
England. In 1674, on the death of his father, (said
John O'Kelly) he succeeded to the family estate of
Screen. In the new Charter of 1687, granted to
Athlone by James the Second, this Charles O'Kelly
was nominated one of the Burgesses ; and, in the
Parliament of 1689, he sat as one of the members for
the County of Roscommon. In the summer of that
year, he was commissioned to raise a Regiment of In-
fantry for King James, to be commanded by himself,
with his brother John, (who was at the same time one
of the Representatives of the Borough of Roscommon)
as his Lieutenant-Colonel. His Regiment does not
appear in this Army List, nor was it long kept up ;
but Colonel Charles's eldest son, the above Denis, was
transferred to Lord Galmoy's Horse, as above. When
affairs in Ulster wei^e beginning to wear an untoward
galmoy's horse. 119
aspect, Colonel Charles, though then sixty-eight years
of age, was selected by Brigadier Sarsfield to oppose
the enemy in Connaught, with such force of the
country militia as he could collect. With this object,
he advanced to Boyle, but was there overthrown with
considerable loss by Colonel Thomas Lloyd, popularly
styled " the little Cromwell." Story says,* that the
Colonel was here taken prisoner, " with forty more
officers and a body of about 8,000 cattle." From
that period certainly no mention is made of him or
any of his family, until the battle of Aughrim, where
the horse of this Captain Denis was shot under him.
After the surrender of Galway, when the attention of
King William's Brigadier was directed to the Isle of
Boffin, then held with a garrison for King James by
Colonel Timothy Reyrdon (O'Rierdon) as its go-
vernor, and its capitulation was necessitated, one of
the articles prescribed that Lieutenant-Colonel John
Kelly, and all the inhabitants of said island, shall
possess and enjoy their estates, as held under the Act
of Settlement ; and the said Lieutenant-Colonel, and
Captain Richard Martin, were given as sureties for
the due ratification thereof. After its surrender he
retired to his family residence, where he devoted his
remaining years to literature and religion, his first
patriotic labour having been the Excidiu7n Macarice^
often cited herein. The family estates of this branch
of the O'Kellys were secured by the Treaty of Lime-
rick ; and consequently, on the death of the Colonel,
* Impartial History, part 1, p. 25.
120 KINO James's irish army list.
which took place in 1695, Captain Denis succeeded
to it. Under a suspicion of being concerned in a plot
to restore the House of Stuart, he was committed to
the Tower in 1722 ; but, by an order of Council, was
admitted to bail in the following year ; and, appear-
ing upon his recognizance within a few months after,
was fully discharged. He had married in 1702 Lady
Mary Bellew, daughter of Lord Bellew and niece to
Lord Strafford, by whom he had a son, Thomas
O'Kelly, born in 1704 ; and daughters. This son
died in 1704. His father survived to 1740, when
with him the male line of Colonel O'Kelly became
extinct. Denis Henry Kelly of Castle Kelly is the
lineal male descendant of John O'Kelly, before men-
tioned as having been the brother of Colonel Charles.
Amongst the O'Kellys attainted in 1642 were
William O'Kelly of Adamstown, and Shaun O'Kelly
of Ballaghmoon, County of Kildare ; John Kelly of
Trimbleston, Richard of Pasloeston, Matthew and
James of Lusk, Bartholomew Kelly and James Kelly
the younger of Lusk, Thomas O'Kelly of Ballyowen,
in the County of Dublin, and William Kelly of
Allenstown, County of Meath. — Of the Confederate
Catholics at Kilkenny, were Daniel O'Kelly of Colan-
geere and John O'Kelly styled of Corbeg.
The Act of Settlement provided that Colonel John
Kelly of Serine should be restored to his estate ; and
the clause declaratory of Royal gratitude for services
beyond the seas, includes the names of Ensign Kelly
and Captain Charles Kelly of Serine.
galmoy's horse. 121
In 1686, John O'KeUy of Clonlyon, the before-
mentioned brother of Colonel Charles (ancestor of the
Castle Kelly line, as well as of that which settled in
France, known as Counts O'Kelly Farrell), was She-
riff of Galway, as was Edward Kelly of Dublin in
the following year. This Edward was a Burgess
in the new Charter to Dublin ; Robert in that to
Carlow ; Colonel Charles, Laurence, and Edmund
OTCelly were Burgesses in that to Athlone ; while
Thomas O'Kelly was Bailiff therein ; John was a
Burgess in that to Tuam, Denis in that to Athenry,
Daniel in Boyle, Hugh in Castlebar ; and in that to
Roscommon, Charles, John, Edmund, and Hugh Kelly
were Burgesses ; the Milesian * 0' being omitted
in many instances.
On the present Army List, besides Captain Denis
Kelly in this Regiment, John Kelly was Quarter-
Master to Lord Galmoy's own troop therein ; Bryan
Kelly was Lieutenant in Colonel Henry Luttrell's
Horse ; Thomas Kelly a Comet in Lord Dongan's
Dragoons ; Constant Kelly a Quarter-Master in the
Regiment of Sir Neill O'NeiU. In the Earl of
Chuiricarde's Infantry, Teigue O'Kelly was Lieute-
nant, and Bryan and William Kelly Ensigns. In
Lord Galway's Foot, William Kelly was a Lieutenant.
In Lord Slane's, Richard Kelly was a Captain ; Mau-
rice Kelly was a Lieutenant in Sir Maurice Eustace's.
In Lord Boffin's, Hugh Kelly was an Ensign. In
Colonel O'Gara's, Daniel and John Kelly were Cap-
tains, and another Daniel Kelly an Ensign. In Sir
122 KING James's irish army list.
Michael Creagh's, George Kelly was an Ensign ; as
was Hugh Kelly in Colonel Reward Oxburgh's. A
Lieutenant Kelly was killed at the siege of Derry ;*
and in the list of general and field officers taken at
the battle of Aughrim, a Major Kelly is particularly
noticed.f
The attainders of 1691 comprise John Kelly of
Athlone, Laurence of Dunavally, Charles and John
of Athlone, Edward of Athlone, merchant ; Thomas of
Clonbrush ; Hubert of Waterstown, County of Car-
low ; Constantine of Old Leighlin, County of Carlow ;
Nicholas of Gowran, County of Kilkenny ; Garrett
of Cadamstown, County of Kildare, and of Ross,
County of Wexford ; Patrick O'Kelly of the County
of Down ; Hugh Kelly of Drumballyryny, ditto ;
Thaddeus O'Kelly of Bolies, ditto ; William Kelly of
Coolenbrack, Queen's County ; Terence and Thomas
of Ballyrahin, ditto ; John and Dominick Kelly of
Gort ; Loughlin Kelly of Ardgool, County of Mayo,
clerk ; Bryan Kelly of the County of Galway ; Oli-
ver of Fidane, ditto ; Philip Kelly of Waterford ;
Laurence Kelly of the County of Roscommon ; Far-
gus Kelly of ditto ; and James Kelly of the County
of Galway.
At the Court of Claims, in 1700, Timothy Kelly
claimed a fee in County of Roscommon lands, forfeited
by Hugh Kelly, — dismist ; John Kelly petitioned
for a leasehold interest in the County of Galway, for-
♦ Walker's Derry, p. 60.
t Story's Impartial History, part 2, p. 137.
galmot's horse. 123
feited by the Earl of Clanricarde, — dismist ; William
Kelly and Clare his wife sought to recover a jointure
off lands in the Counties of Galway and Roscommon,
forfeited by Laurence Kelly, — dismist ; while in the
latter lands Francis and Margaret ' Kelley,' minors,
claimed by their guardians certain remainders, — dis-
allowed. Mary Kelly claimed and was allowed her
jointure off Roscommon lands forfeited by Fargus
Kelly. Denis Kelly claimed a leasehold in County
of Roscommon lands, — disallowed. Edmund Kelly, as
son, heir, and administrator of Colonel Edmund Kelly,
claimed and was allowed a freehold in County of
Galway lands forfeited by Lord Viscount Galmoy.
John Kelly, Junior, by John Kelly his father, sought
a remainder for years in Roscommon lands forfeited
by Loughlin Kelly ; while John, son of Daniel Kelly,
claimed and was allowed the fee of said lands. Hugh
Kelly of Cultraghbeg claimed the fee thereof, forfeited
by Hugh Kelly of Ballyforan ; but his petition was
dismissed. Bryan Kelly claimed, as surviving bro-
ther of Hugh Kelly, who was heir of Loughlen Kelly,
an equity of redemption affecting Galway lands for-
feited by John, son and heir of Edmund Kelly.
Hugh Kelly, a minor, claimed and was allowed a
remainder in tail in Galway lands forfeited by Hugh
Kelly of Ballyforan ; while Bryan Kelly, as eldest
son of said Hugh, claimed and was allowed an estate
tail in said lands, which comprised Ballyforan, &c.;
and Mary Kelly, alias Donnelan, claimed jointure off
Galway lands forfeited by Edmund Kelly, — dismist.
124 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
So much has been published concerning this ancient
Irish sept in Burke's Landed Gentry, and in the * Hy
Maine' of the Irish Archaeological Society, that it
would not be justifiable to transfer their details to
these pages. It may be remarked, however, that the
Chancery Records yet fiirther illustrate the annals,
possessions, and lineage of this family, even from the
year (1314) when Edward the Second directed his
special missive to Gilbert O'Kelly, *I>uci Hibemi-
corum de O'Many.'* Of their continental reputation
it may be noticed as a fragment, that, in 1699, Wil-
liam O'Kelly, * bom in the parish of Aughrim,'obtained
from the Emperor Leopold the chairs of Philosophy,
History, and Heraldry, with many other honours.f —
In 1747, Lieutenant William Kelly, of Lally's Regi-
ment, was one of the wounded at the battle of Lauf-
field.
LIEUTENANT MATTHEW COOKE.
This officer is described in the Inquisition taken on
his attainder as of Painstown, County of Carlow.
George Cooke, a Quarter-master in the same com-
pany of this Regiment, was, it may be presumed, a
relative of Matthew. The only individual of the
name outlawed in 1642, was Thomas Cooke, de-
scribed as * of Beldoyle.' Other Cookes, projected to
notice about this time, were John Cooke, a Justice
♦ Rymer s Foedera. f Ware's Writers, p. 287.
GALMOT'fi HORSE. 125
of the Bench during the Commonwealth ; and Colonel
Creorge Cooke, whose relict and children the Act of
Settlement confirmed in their estate. It also saved
the right of Cook, an infant, * grandchild to
Sir John Cook,' in lands of Feartry, County of Wick-
low. In King James's Charter to Carlow, William
Cook was a Burgess, as was Peter Cook in that to
Fethard. Amongst those attainted in 1691 were
Marcus Cooke of Cradany, the above Matthew of
PainstoWn, County of Carlow, and John Cooke of
Ballyhaurigan, County of Kerry. On these lands of
Painstown, with which Lieutenant Matthew was so
connected, William Cooke was a claimant for the fee
under a conveyance of 1684, witnessed by the said
Matthew, and of which the late proprietor was Dud-
ley Bagnall. His claim was allowed, as was also
that of Thomas Cooke for the fee of forfeited lands in
the County of Cork.
LIEUTENANT GEORGE GERNON.
The name of Gremon appears of Irish record and
history from a very early period. When Edward
Bruce invaded Ireland in 1315, Roger Gemon and
John Gemon his brother were of the King's lieges
who vigorously opposed his incursion. Early in the
reign of Edward the Third, the said Roger and John,
styled of Killingcoole, were summoned to attend John
D'Arcy, the Irish Justiciary, with arms and horses in
126 KING James's irish army list.
his expedition to Scotland ; the latter (John) Ger-
non was in eight years after (1344) appointed a
Justice of the Bench, while in 1374 Roger (Jernon was
constituted a Baron of Parliament by writ.*
The George Gernon here under consideration was,
as described in his outlawry, of Dunany in the
County of Louth, a locality more anciently included
in Gemonstown ; and was also seized of estates in
the County of Roscommon, the fee of which was
claimed before the Court at Chichester House in
1703, by Edward Gernon, who appears to have been
his son. George Gernon was one of the Catholics
admitted to the freedom of Drogheda under the new
Charter of 1685. In that to Drogheda Hugh and
Bartholomew Gernon were Aldermen, and in that to
Ardee James Gernon was named Provost, Hugh Ger-
non a Burgess, and Thomas Gernon Town-clerk.
Martin Gernon was one of the Burgesses in that to
Belfast. Hugh, the Burgess of Ardee, was one of its
Representatives in the Parliament of 1689.
But one other of the name appears on this Muster
Roll, a John Gernon, who also was a Lieutenant in
Colonel Cormuck O'NeiU's Infantry.
The outlawries of 1691, besides that of Lieutenant
George, record the names of Nicholas Gernon, of Ju-
lianstown. County of Meath, who died at the close of
the year 1689 ;t Hugh Gernon of Ardee and Killing,
cool, Thomas Gernon of Dublin, George^ as * son of
♦ Burke's Ext. Peer. p. 708.
t Inqmsition, 3 Will. & Mary, in Cane. Hib.
galmoy's horse. 127
Roger' G^mon of Dunany, Bartholomew of Drogheda,
Patrick and Edward also of Dunany, Richard of Sta-
bannon, Martin of Crookedstone, and Nicholas of
Clough, County of Antrim. The greater part of the
Gernon estates were granted in 1694 to Colonel
Henry Baker, who did such service for King William
at Derry. The claims at Chichester House were,
Patrick Gemon's for a remainder in tail in Killing-
coole and other Louth lands forfeited by Hugh
Gremon ; and his claim was allowed ; Edward Ger-
non's for a similar remainder in Dromisken and other
Louth lands forfeited by Nicholas Gernon ; but his
claim was not allowed. The above Martin Gernon
of Crookedstone claimed various interests affecting
the lands of Sir Neill O'Neill in Antrim ; — petition
dismist.
LIEUTENANT PATRICK KEARNEY.
O'DuGAN, in his Topography of Ireland, locates the
sept of O'Keamey in that part of Meath ( Westmeath)
called Teffia. A clan of the name is placed near
Kinsale in the County of Cork on Ortelius's map,
and they also appear to have been territorial in the
Baronies of Tulla and Bunratty, County of Clare.
The elder family of this name, those of Teffia, took
the cognomen of Sionnach (Fox), by which English
appellation one of the family got the title of Baron
of Eilcoursey in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. In
128 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
1095, Carbrie ^O'Kerny' was Bishop of Fems. In
1198, Giolla Criost 'O'Ceamey' was elected Abbot of
Derrj-Columb-kille, ' by the Chiefe and Clergy of the
Nortii of Ireland;' he was afterwards appointed
Bishop of Connor, to which See James O'Kemy was
appointed Bishop in 1324. In 1571, a John Kemy
is remembered as one who, in connection with
Walsh, then Chancellor of St. Patrick's Cathedral,
Dublin, first introduced Irish types, and was himself
author of the earliest catechism printed in that lan-
guage. About the year 1601 he died.
This Lieutenant Patrick appears, from an ancient
pedigree in the Trinity College Collection (F. iii. 27),
to have been of a Tipperary branch of this family ;
thus : Daniel Kearney of Ballyknock in that County,
in the middle of the sixteenth century, married Alice,
daughter of William Butler ; his grandson Patrick
Kearney married Ellen, daughter of Teigue * Cur-
rane' of Mohernan in the same County, and died in
1641 at the advanced age of eighty. His son, Brien
Kearney, whom Patrick survived, left two sons,
Donogh and Edmund : the eldest, Donogh, married
Alice, daughter of Patrick Comerford of Modeshill,
in the same County, and had by her three sons,
Patrick, (the above Lieutenant, as it is surmised),
Michael, and Nicholas, and a daughter.
The attainders of 1642 present but William Ker-
ney of Wicklow, while amongst the Confederate
Catholics of Kilkenny was only James O'Keamey of
Ballyluskey. In 1685, Sir Richard 'Carney' was
galmoy's horse. 129
Ulster King of Arms. In the New Charters of King
James that immediately succeeded, John Kearney
was Town Clerk in that to Dublin, as also in that to
Carlow. Thomas Kearney was appointed Sovereign
in that to Kilmallock, in which a Patrick Kearney
was a Burgess. Denis Kearney was a Burgess in that
to Fethard, while a Patrick Kearney was Recorder and
Town Clerk. Philip Kearney was Town Clerk in
that to Blessington, Denis Kearney in that to Tho-
mastown ; and in the Charter to Cashel Patrick
Kearney was named an Alderman, while Edmund,
John, Paul senior, and Paul junior were Burgesses
therein. In the Parliament of Dublin (1689) Dennis
Kearney was one of the Representatives of the Bo-
rough of Cashel.
A few months before the battle of the Boyne, King
James appointed Patrick Kearney to the office of
* Comptroller of the Pipe and second Engrosser of the
Great Roll of the Pipe of the Exchequer of Ireland.*'
In this Army List, a Michael Kearney was a Lieute-
nant in Colonel Purcell's Horse, and he would seem
to be the second son of Donogh by Alice Comerford,
and brother to Lieutenant Patrick. It is mentioned
in King James's Memoirs that, before Schomberg had
landed in Ireland, a Sir Charles 'Carney' was by
order of that King stationed at Coleraine with one or
two Regiments, and another higher up upon the Ban
water, to secure that river ; that, on Schomberg's
landing, he was ordered to retire, ^ for fear of being
• Rolls Office Index, James II. f. 72.
K
130 KING JAMES'S lEISH ARMY LIST.
cut off by the enemy f and that ultimately he com-
manded the reserve at the Boyne.* The attainders
of 1691 include Murtagh * Kearny' of Athlone, John
Kearney of Dublin, Denis of Cashel, John of Parks-
town, County of Kilkenny ; Nicholas * Kamey' of
Athfane, County of Waterford ; Moriarty Kearney of
Clonmacnoise, King's County, clerk ; John of Por-
tumna, County of Galway ; James of the Barony of
Muskerry, and John and Richard Kearney of Cork.
At the Court of Claims, Anstace Kearney, as widow
of Edmund Kearney, sought dower off County of
Cork lands forfeited by James Kearney ; but her
petition was dismist Richard Kearney, as "only
son or executor" of Daniel Kearney, claimed and was
allowed a freehold remainder in estates in Tipperary
forfeited by Sir John Everard of Fethard ; while
Mary Kearney, alias Comerford, and James Kearney,
administrators of Bryan Kearney, claimed and
were allowed leaseholds in said lands. At the
battle of Lauffield in 1747, Richard ' Kearny' was
wounded fighting in Bulkeley's Irish Brigade, as was
also Lieutenant ' Kearny' in Lally's Regiment on the
same day.f
• Clarke's James II. vol. 2, pp. 372 & 397.
t Gent. Mag., ad ann., p. 377.
SAfiSFIELD'S HORSE.
131
REGIMENTS OF HORSE.
PATRICK SARSFIELD'a (EARL OF LUCAN).
QqtUmu,
LimUenantt.
Comeet.
Quari^.Masteri.
The Colonel
John Gaydon.
George Slaogfater.
James Planket.
AlmerionB, Lord
Kinaale, Lieut.
Colonel
James St. John.
Thomas Taaffe.
Boger McEettigaa,
Major.
Bene de Came.
Thomas Leicester.
Christopher FiUGerald
1. Thomas Lilly.
Daniel O'Neill
Bene Maaandier.
James Pnrcell
William Synnott.
John Bonrke.
Geoige Mayo.
Edmund Morris.
Thomaa Burke.
Thomas Dempoej.
Patrick Dillon.
WiUiam Meaner.
Franois Magle.
Bichard TyrreU.
SylTesterDoTenish
Bichard Tyrrell.
Mnitogh O'Brien. Edward Butler.
John Macnaroara. Piers Butler. Thomas Bourke.
Edward Dowdall.
K 2
132 KING James's irish army list.
COLONEL PATRICK SARSFIELD.
Thomas de ' Sarsefeld/ ' premier porte-banniere du Roi
Henri ii. A. D., 1172/ is said to be the first who
brought this surname into Ireland.* In 1302, King
Edward the First invited Thomas and Stephen de
* Saresfeld ' to aid him in the Scottish wars. In the
time of Edward the Third, Henry, son of David
Saresfeld, resided in the County of Cork. During the
same reign, a branch of the family settled in Meath,
one of whom, after some generations, stiled, ' of
Lucan,' sent two archers to the Hosting of Tara. In
1566, Sir William Sarsfield of Lucan was knighted
by Sir Henry Sydney, for his services against Shane
O'Neill, and he was seneschal of the Royal manor of
Newcastle in 1591. In 1609, SirDominick Sarsfield,
being Premier Baronet of Ireland, and Chief Jus-
tice of Munster, was one of the three commissioners
whom King James assigned to demarcate the munici-
pal boundaries of Cork. In 1609, he was appointed
second justice of the Irish Court of King's Bench ;
in 1610, was promoted to the Chief Justiceship of the
Common Pleas, and in 1612, had a grant from that
Monarch of the Castle of Carriglemlary, with thirteen
plowlands, licence to export com and victuals raised
on the premises fi^e of all customs, with all tithes,
fisheries, courts of pie-poudre, and the usual tolls,
liberty to empark with free warren ; said Sir Domi-
• Biirke^s Landed Grentry, p. 119.
sarsfield's horse. 133
nick being therefor bound to plant ninety families
on the lands. All these premises are stated to have
come to the Crown by the attainder of Philip Fitz-
Edmond Roche. In 1627, this Royal favourite was
unadvisedly created Lord Viscount of Kinsale, a title
for centuries maintained, with unbroken succession, in
the ancient and noble family of De Courcey ; where-
upon John Lord Courcey, existing Baron of Kinsale,
and Gerald his son, petitioned the King and Lords of
the Council in England, against Sarsfield's assumption
of the dignity. This petition was referred to the
Judges, who transferred the question to the Earl
Marshal of England, from whose Report it appeared
that the De Courceys had from time immemorial been
. stiled Barons of Kinsale and Ringrone ; and he held
that to have two titles standing, one of the Barony in
de Courcey, and another of the Viscounty in Sarsfield,
would be an ill-confounding of titles of honour, and
that therefore Sir Dominick, though he may retain
his rank, should take his title from some other place
in Ireland, or be called Viscount Sarsfield ; whereupon
he took that of Kilmallock. In the outlawries of
1642 appears the name of Peter Sarsfield of Tully
County of Kildare. His son Patrick* had two sons,
WiUiam of Lucan, who married Marie, sister of the
Duke of Monmouth ; and Patrick, the Colonel at pre-
sent under consideration. This latter "was highly
accomplished, and in personal appearance of a tall
and manly figure ; he had been an Ensign in France
* Burke's L#anded Gentry.
134 KING JAMES'S lElSH ABMT LIST.
in Monmouth's Eegiment, and a Lieutenant of the
Guards in England.''* When James came over to
Ireland, he ranked as a Brigadier-general, and by his
own influence had embodied this noble body of
fiorse ; soon after which, by the death of his elder
brother William, s.p.m., he succeeded to the family
estates, then considered of the value of £2,000 per
annum. He was a Burgess in King James's Charter
to Middleton, while Dominick and James were Alder-
men in that to Cork, and John a Burgess in that to
Limerick.
In the Parliament of 1689, sat Dominick Sarsfield,
Viscount Kilmallock, of the Peers. * He had a Regi-
ment of Infantry in this service, as shown hereafter ;
while, in others of this List, James Sarsfield was an
Ensign in Colonel Thomas Butler^s, as was Joseph
Sarsfield in Colonel Charles O'Brien's, in which
Ignatius Sarsfield was a captain. This Ignatius was
the son of Patrick Sarsfield of Limerick, theretofore
Governor of Clare ; his descendants, of kindred col-
lateral to Colonel Patrick, bore the title of Counts of
Sarsfield in the French army.
Early in the Irish campaign, after Mountcashel's
defeat before Enniskillen, Sarsfield, then " a young
Captain beloved by the soldiery," was stationed with
some troops at Sligo, for the defence of Connaught
from the Ulster adherents of William ; a position
which he held until directed to remove, to maintain
Athlone against the meditated attack of Lieutenant-
* O'Conor s Military Memoirs.
SAESFI£LD's hoese. 135
General James Douglas. The announcement of his
approach affected the object for the moment, Greneral
Douglas retiring to rejoin his King. It is said of
Sarsfield that, even after King William had passed
the Boyne, he "implored James, before he left the hill
of Dunore, to strike another blow for empire.'' At
the first siege of Limerick, while Major-General
Boiseleau had the command of the Garrison, the Duke
of Berwick and Colonel Sarsfield were next under
him. The latter, pending the siege, (on the 12th
August) surprised, at Kelly-na-Mona, a convoy that
was conducting to the besiegers provisions and am-
munition. This gallant achievement is fiilly detailed
by Story, the Chaplain of King William. He spiked
their cannon and exploded their ammunition ; and the
same day re-entered Limerick amidst the triumphant
shouts of his fellow-soldiers, thenceforth more than ever
their idol. Encouraged by his daring exploit, those
who were wavering before abandoned all thoughts ot
capitulation.* On the 30th August, King William
directing his last assault upon the City, left 1200
regular troops killed in the* trenches, and in five days
after embarked himself fix)m Waterford to England.
When the Duke of Tyrconnel went to France, Sars-
field was one of those whom he put in commission to
direct the inexperienced Duke of Berwick ; to whom,
as befi)re menjiioned, he had entrusted the command
of the army. Soon afterwards the Duke and he
attacked the Castle of Birr, the family residence of
• Clarkes James II., v. 2, p. 416.
136 KING JAM£S'8 IRISH ARMY LIST.
Sir Lawrence Parsons, ancestor of the present Earl
of Rosse ; "the principal design, however, of this
movement was to break down the bridge of Banagher,
but the attempt was found too hazardous at that time,
not only as the enemy was very strong on the other
side, but as it was defended by a Castle and another
work which commanded it on two sides,*^ and the
project was consequently abandoned. Sarsfield is
represented by Colonel O'Kelly, in the ^Exddium
Macarioe^' as suspecting Berwick about this time of
treacherous correspondence with his Uncle Colonel
Churchill, in King William's service.
Tyrconnel, when he returned from France, brought
with him a patent from King James, creating this
officer Earl of Lucan, Viscount of Tully, and Baron
of Rosberry; titles which King Williams Chaplain,
Story, seems willing to concede to liim, even aflber the
conclusion of the campaign. ' Lord Lucan,' he says,
*for so we may venture to caD Lieutenant-General
Sarsfield, since the Articles of Limerick do it.' King
James then also constituted Sarsfield a Colonel of his
Life Guards, and Commander-in^hief of the Forces
in Ireland ; the last appointment proved however soon
but titular, as in May, 1691, the Marquess de St.
Ruth landed, a foreigner placed over his head by the
French King. Yet no jealousy of Sarsfield at this
step induced him to abate his zeal fo^ the cause he
had espoused; and when, on Tyrconnel's death,
D'Usson, the senior officer, assumed the command of
♦ Harris's Life of WiUiam III.
sarsfield's horse. 137
of Limerick, " Sarsfield attended to all the details,
superintended the repair of the fortifications, the
providing of ammunition and stores, watched the
motions and defeated the designs of the peace party.
His vigilance and activity admitted of no relaxation ;
his ardour inspired the troops with confidence.*^ At
the Battle of Aughrim he had been placed by St.
Ruth at the left wing of the Irish army, with positive
instructions not to stir from that position until he
received St. Ruth's orders, an injunction which held
him inactive until the death of that Commander
closed the contest, the more effectuaUy as Sarsfield,
though second in command, was wholly ignorant of
the plans of his commander ; the officers of the Irish
army waited for orders, but none was there to give
them.f
Sarsfield, after long opposing the capitulation of
Limerick, excited much astonishment by ultimately
joining those who advocated it. Colonel O'Kelly
could not see any justification for this change of
opinion, and is the more inclined to impeach it, as,
pending the arrangement of the terms for surren-
der, this General dined with the Duke of Wurtem-
burgh in the English camp. O'Conor, in his ' Military
Memoirs,' (p. 174) defends Sarsfield's motives in a
manner that would leave without stain the memory
of this truly illustrious Irishman. At a very ad-
vanced state of the siege, " his constancy gave way,
• O'Conor 8 Military Mem. p. 167.
t O'Callagban's Excidium Macarke, p. 461.
138 KING JAM£S'S IRISH A&MT LIST.
he apprehended probably that some of the gates or
works would be betrayed to the enemy, that the whole
garrison would be involved in the horrors of a town
taken by storm, and that no terms could in that case
be made for the religion or the nation. Overpowered
by such considerations, he ultimately acquiesced in
the wishes of the majority." The Treaty that he
sought proposed indemnity for the past, free liberty
of worship, security of titles and estates, admission to
all employments civil and military, and equal rights
with the Protestants in all the Corporations. Such
was the Treaty he sought; such he construed the
Articles of Limerick, to which he was an executing
party. He had however been himself previously at-
tainted on several Inquisitions taken in Dublin, Eil-
dare, Cork and Kerry ; Lady Honoria Sarsfield, his
wife, was also outlawed, as were Daniel and David
Sarsfield of Sarsfield's Court.
At the Court of Claims, Francis Sarsfield claimed
and was allowed a fee in lands at Saggard, County of
Dublin, forfeited by Patrick Sarsfield ; and in all his
other estates in the County of Kildare, &c. — Dominick,
James, and Patrick Sarsfield, minors, claimed, by their
father Dominick Sarsfield, an estate tail in Cork lands
of which he was the late occupant ; — disallowed. Pa-
trick Sarsfield, in behalf of his son John, a minor,
claimed an estate tail in Cork lands forfeited by the
said Patrick ; allowed, after the decease of John's
father and mother. Said Patrick Sarsfield also claim-
ed an estate tail in Lucan, Rathbride, &c. ; — dismist.
sarsfield's horse. 139
The only existing male representative of this illus-
trioos name now in Ireland appears to be Domi-
nick Ronayne Sarsfield of Dough-Cloyne, County of
Cork ; the lineal descendant of Dominick, the above
minor, claimant. William Sarsfield, the aforesaid
brother of the Earl of Lucan, left by the Duke of
Monmouth's sister a daughter Charlotte, who, after
the. attainder and forfeiture of her unde, obtained a
grant of some of his estates. She married Agmon-
disham Vesey, son of the Archbishop of Tuam, and
had by him two daughters ; Henrietta, who married
Caesar Colclough of Tintem Abbey, County of Wex-
ford ; and Anne, who married John Bingham of
Castlebar, ancestor of the present Earl of Lucan.
On the surrender of Limerick, Sarsfield sedulously
urged the removal of many of his old comrades to
France, with a sanguine hope of such aid from King
Louis as would secure their triumphant return.*
"The Irish Officers,'' says Harris, "went on board
with the best of their forces on the 22nd of Dec.
1691, and with them Sarsfield embarked to seek a
fortune in a strange country, when he might have re-
mained an ornament to his own ; but he was actu-
ated by a strong bias to what, in his opinion, was the
true religion, and by the false principle of honor and
loyalty to a Prince, who had made it the whole busi-
ness of his reign to overturn an established constitu-
tion." He landed in due course at Brest, with 4,500
of the expatriated Irish, while a remainder of 19,059
* O'Conors Military Mem., p. 189.
140 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
men and officers arrived in France about tte same
time, in three other divisions * all of whom King
James reviewed and regimented.f On Sarsfield's
arrival in France, that King appointed him to the
command of the second troop of Irish Horse Guards,
that of the first having been committed to the Duke
of Berwick. During the short interval that he out-
lived the Stuart Dynasty, he addressed various letters,
(offigred for sale in the Southwell Collections some few
years since) signed by himself as Earl of Lucan, to De
Ginkle, Earl of Athlone ; in which he set forth the
displeasure of Louis the Fourteenth, by reason that
" the articles of the Capitulation of Limerick had not
been punctually performed," and requiring that the
delay to so doing should be removed with all imagina-
ble despatch. These communications passed in the
year 1692. In the following year, he fell on the field
of battle. "This year," (1693) says O'Conor, "is
memorable in the annals of the Irish Brigade, for the
death of Patrick Sarsfield, Earl of Lucan. He had
been instrumental in bringing over a great part of the
Irish army to the service of France, and had the com-
mand of the troops destined for the invasion of Eng-
land. After the destruction of the French fleet off*
La Hogue, the Irish troops marched to Alsace ; and
Sarsfield, at the close of 1692, was ordered to join
the French army in Flanders under the Duke of Lux-
embourg ; in 1693, he was killed in the battle of
• O'Conor's Military Mem, p. 193.
t O'Callaghan's Brigades, v. 1, p. 64.
sa&sfield's horse. 141
Landen, at the head of a French division. He fell
leading on the charge of strangers ; his contempora-
ries long deplored the loss of this gallant officer, and
his memory is still cherished with entlmsiastic admi-
ration in his native country As a partisan, and
for desultory warfare, Sarsfield possessed admirable
qualifications. Brave, patient, vigilant, rapid, indefa-
tigable, ardent, adventurous, and enterprising ; the
foremost in the encounter, the last to retreat ; he har-
rassed his enemy by sudden, unexpected, and gener-
ally irresistible attacks ; inspiring his troops with the
same ardour and contempt of danger with which his
own soul was animated. His valour prolonged the
contest in Ireland, and if he had but possessed a cor-
responding degree of military skill, might materially
have altered the issue of the contest.*** " Patrick
Sarsfield,** writes a more recent biographer, " may be
quoted as a type of loyalty and patriotic devotion. In
the annals of Irish History he stands as a parallel to
Pierre du Terrail, Chevalier de Bayard, in those of
France, and may be equally accounted ' sans peur et
sans reproche.* In his public actions firm and consis-
tent, in his private character amiable and unblem-
ished ; attached, by religious conviction and heredi-
tary reverence for the * right divine * of Kings, to the
falling House of Stuart, he drew a sharp sword in the
cause of the Monarch he had been brought up to be-
lieve his lawful sovereign, and voluntarily followed
♦ O'Conor's Military Mem. p. 222.
142 KING James's irish akmt list.
him into exile when he could wield it no longer.***
Arminius was never more popular among the Ger-
mans than was Sarsfield among the Irish.
He had married the Lady Honoria de Burgh,
daughter of the Earl of Clanricarde, by whom he had
one son, James Edward Francis, of whom see ante^ p.
27. He fought under his illustrious stepfather, the
Marshal Duke of Berwick, in Spain, and was honor-
ably provided for by King Philip the Fifth. The
Earl of Lucan left also one daughter, who intermar-
ried with the well-known Baron Theodore de New-
burgh, King of Corsica. Sarsfield's widow married
the Duke of Berwick in 1695, by whom she had
issue as before mentioned. Soon after the death of
Lord Lucan, in October, 1693, King James appointed
Donough McCarthy, Earl of Clancarthy, his succes-
sor in the command of the second troop of Guards.f
A Captain Peter Drake, of Drake-Rath, County of
Meath, who left Ireland on the fall of James the
Second's cause, says in a diary kept by him, " From
Paris I went (in 1694) to St. Germains, where I met
with Mrs. Sarsfield, mother of Lord Lucan, and her
two daughters, Ladies Ejlmallock and Mount Leins-
ter ; the eldest of whom. Lady Kilmallock, was my
godmother. These ladies, though supported by small
pensions," adds the Captain, " received me with great
generosity, and treated me with much good nature. J
• Dublin University Magazine, November, 1823.
t O'Callaghan's Brigades, v. 1, p. 135.
X Cited, Idem, p. 334.
sarsfield's horse. 143
Of the many Sarsfields distinguished in the armies
of the Continent, see O'Callaghan's History of the
Irish Brigades, (vol. 1, p. 321) ; but they were, from
the fact stated, not of Patrick's descendants.
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL ALMERIC DE
COURCY, LORD KINSALE.
This noble family claims alliance with most of the
Royal Houses of Europe ; paternally through the
Dukes of Lorraine, and maternally through those of
Normandy. Robert de Courcy accompanied William
the Conqueror to England, distinguished himself at
the battle of Hastings, and partook largely of the
spoils of the conquest, in grants of estates in Somerset
and Oxford Shires. His lineal descendant. Sir John
de Courcy, having signalised himself in the wars of
Henry the Second in England and Gascony, was sent
into Ireland in 1177, as an assistant to William Fitz-
Adelm in the government of that country. He it was
who, having obtained from King Henry the Second,
while in Ireland, a grant of Ulster, with the naifve
proviso that he should first subdue it by the force
of his arms, invaded that province with twenty-two
Knights, fifty Esquires, and about three hundred foot
soldiers; where he did such ' service in the English in-
terest,' that the Annals of the North during his visita-
tion are but the chronicle of successful carnage. His
144 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
course was traced by ruined districts, depopulated vil-
lages, desecrated churches ; not, however, without found-
ing sundry other religious houses in atonement as at
Neddrum, the Black Abbey, Iniscourcy, Tobberglory,
&c. His achievements acquired for him the dignity
of Earl of Ulster, but afterwards incurring the dis-
pleasure of King John, he was only released from its
infliction on succeeding against a French Champion
in a wager of battle, concerning the very important
political question of the day, the Royal right to Nor-
mandy. John then also conferred upon him that
privilege, which has been since sometimes asserted
by his descendants, of wearing the head covered in
the presence of Majesty. Henry the Third rewarded
his son Miles more substantially with the Barony of
Kinsale. In 1302, Nicholas de Courcy was one of the
Magnates of Ireland who attended, on summons,
Richard de Burgo in the wars of Scotland.*
The Lieutenant-Colonel here under consideration
was Almericus de Courcy, the twenty-third in the suc-
cession of that ancient Baronage. He succeeded to
the title in 1669, being then only five years old, and
was sent early to Oxford ; where his education was
conducted under the eye of the famous John Fell,
Dean of Christ Church, and Bishop of Oxford ; whose
letters in 1677-8 represent his young Lordship as
"addicted to the tennis court, proof against all
Latin assaults, and prone to kicking, beating, and
domineering over his sisters ; fortified in the
• Burke's Peerage.
sarsfield's horse. 145
conceit that a title of honor was support enough, with-
out the pedantry and trouble of book-learning."* One
of these sisters, Ellen, was married to Sir John
Magrath, of Attivolan, County of Tipperary, who was
created a Baron under singular circumstances here-
after alluded to at that name. This Lord's first posi-
tion in King James's service was as Captain of a
Troop of Horse ; he was afterwards raised to this
Lieutenant-Colonelcy in Sarsfield's Regiment, and
enjoyed the continuance of a pension which had been
previously granted to the 22nd Lord by Charles the
Second. He sat as a Peer in the Parliament of 1689 ;
while in the Commons, on that occasion. Miles de
Courcy was one of the Representatives of Eansale.
That Miles was a Captain in Major-General Boiseleau's
Infantry, as was also Garrett ' Coursey ' and another
Garrett Coursy, a Lieutenant.
The Baron was attainted in 1691, but the outlawry
having been subsequently reversed, he, in October,
1692, took his seat in the House of Peers of Ire-
land, and sat a second time in 1719 ; at the close of
which year (Feb. 9th) he died, and was buried in West-
minster Abbey. He left no issue, whereupon his
cousin-german, Myles de 'Coursy,' the Captain in
Major-General Boiseleau's Foot, succeeded to the
title, t
* Catal. Southwell MSS., p. 891.
t Crossley's Peerage, p. 208.
146 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
MAJOR ROGER ' M'KETTIGAN;
Tffls Sept were anciently the territorial proprietors of
Clan-diannada, a denomination still recognisable in
the parish of Clan-dermot, County of Deny, over
which County and that of Donegal the name is still
extant. It was borne by a late Roman Catholic
Bishop of Raphoe, Dr. Patrick ' Mc Gettigan.'
CAPTAIN RENE DE CARNE.
He being one of the French OflScers, as was Lieute-
nant Rene Mezandine, they and others of that nation
in the Roll are not within the scope of the present
Illustrations. Of Captain Rene de Came, however,
it may be observed that, on the formation of the Irish
Brigade, called the Queen's Own, this Captain was ap-
pointed its Lieutenant-Colonel, as before mentioned,
ante p. 105.
CAPTAIN FRANCIS NAGLE.
This is one of the families that branched from
Gilbert de Angulo, who came into Ireland with
Strongbow, and altered the name into Nangle in the
County of Meath, and Nagle in Cork. A Manuscript
Book of Obits, &c. in Trinity College, Dublin, (F. 3,
27) gives links of the lineage of the Nagles of
sarsfield's horse. 147
Monanimy, County of Cork, for nine generations in
the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The attainders
of 1642 include the names of Richard Nagle and
John Nagle of that place. The Declaration of Royal
gratitude from Charles the Second, for services beyond
the seas, makes special mention of Pierce Nagle, also
of Monanimy. In King James's New Charters to
the Corporations of Ireland, David Nagle was an
Alderman in that to Cork, wherein Peter Nagle was
a Burgess. In that to Mallow, Piers, David, and
Edward were Burgesses ; to Dungarvan, Peter and
Andrew were named Burgesses, and William Nagle,
Town Clerk. James was Town Clerk in those to
Trim and Belturbet. In that to Charleville, David,
Piers, Richard, John, and James Nagle were named
Burgesses; while last in that to Youghal, Piers,
Andrew, and William Nagle were Burgesses ; Sir
Richard Nagle was an Alderman.
This latter individual, the most memorable of his
name at that period, (ofi«n called * Nangle ' in Lord
Clarendon's Letters) was " an active and skilfol
lawyer of the Popish party,*** knighted on being
appointed King James's Attorney-General for Ireland.
Tyrconnel, who particularly admired his shrewdness,
brought him with him to England " in June, 1685,
after having disbanded a great part of the Officers of
the Irish Army. The Earl Powis, Lord Bellasis, and
* Leland'fl Ireland, v. 8, p. 515. King says he was originallj
designed for the Roman Catholic priesthood State of the Pro-
testania^ p. 73.
l2
148 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
other Lords were so exasperated on being informed of
Nagle's arrival, that they would have him expelled
from London immediately. As it was, some time
elapsed before he was admitted to kiss the King's
hand ; however, to complete in private what he
dared not attempt upon the public, it was agreed
among them that Nagle should set forth, by way of
a letter to a friend, the great injustice and oppression
of the Acts of Settlement and Explanation, to open
a way to their repeal ; the time being now thought
favourable for that purpose, when the King, who,
while Duke of York, had always patronised the
scheme, avowed himself ready to countenance it with
all his power, and no Parliament was at present
sitting to control his proceedings. In the following
year, accordingly, Nagle wrote this letter (October,
1686) to Tyrconnel, with great virulence and ran-
cour, and not without a considerable share of sophis-
try and cunning. He laid the scene at Coventry,
and introduced it as the fruits of two sleepless hours
there, whence it took the name of ' the Coventry
Letter ;' whereas it was the labour of so many weeks
in London. In this letter he endeavours to show
some nullities and invalidities in the said Acts, and
confidently affirmed that it was not for murder or
rebellion, but for religion that the estates of the
Irish were sequestered, and mainly insisted on the
inconvenience that would accrue to the Popish inte-
rest by the continuance of these Acts. His invectives
against King Charles the Second were so virulent^
sarsfield's horse. 149
that he dared not to own his production ; but in
Ireland gave out that he would arrest any man in
an action of £10,000, who should presume to father
it on him. Yet afterwards, when Speaker of James's
Irish Parliament, he pleaded it as a merit, and the
Repeal of the Acts was urged, founded on his argu-
ments."* His presence at the Conference which
Bang James held at Chester, in 1687, was thus
necessitated ; and accordingly, in the Rolls Office of
Ireland is preserved a licence of absence to Sir
Richard Nagle for one month, under the Lord
Deputy's warrant, dated 18th August, 1687, nine
days before the King came up to Chester.
On the assembling of the Parliament of Dublin in
1689, he was elected their Speaker.f He sat as one
of the Representatives of Cork, and was, as might be
expected, one of the most violent impugners of the
Act of Settlement. In the summer of that year, on
the retirement of Lord Melfort, he was, by the Duke
of Tyrconnel's interest, appointed Secretary of State,
as well as Secretary of War to His Majesty. After
the defeat at the Boyne, he was one of the Council
whom King James, on his arrival in Dublin, con-
vened to advise proceedings. " They were all unani-
mously of opinion that he should lose no time in
going to France, otherwise he would run a great risk
of being taken by the enemy, who they believed
♦ The original letter was sold in the Southwell MSS. — See
Thorpe's Catalogue, pp. 223-4.
t Somers' State Tracts, v. 11, p. 407.
150 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
would be there next morning"* When, after the
first siege of Limerick, Tyrconnel went over to St.
Germains, he was accompanied by Sir Richard Nagle,
the duty of Secretary of State being confided in his
absence to the newly created Lord Riverston ; he
returned with the Duke in January, 1690, and, on
the death of that great man, he feelingly laments
the event in a letter, August, 1691, to Lord
Merrion, as " a fatal stroke to this poor country, in
this nick of time, the enemy being within four miles
of the town," adding, "he is to be buried privately
to-morrow, about ten of the clock at night. As he
appeared always zealous for his country, so his loss is
at this time extremely pernicious to this poor nation."f
In the too confident contemplation of his death, a
Royal Commission had been fore-drawn, providing that
the Government should, in such event, be administered
by this Sir Richard Nagle, Francis Plowden, Com-
missioner of the Revenue (who brought it over), and
Baron Gawsworth the Lord Chancellor, as Lords
Justices, with the usual forms. J Sir Richard was
attainted by no less than seven Inquisitions. Im-
mediately on his outlawry, an order of the Govern-
ment issued, " requiring such persons as might
have papers or books of his in their custody at the
Castle of Dublin, to deliver same to George Clarke,
the new Secretary of War.''§
* Clarke's James IT., p. 401.
t O'Callaghan's Excidium Afacatice, p. 472.
I Idem, pp. 478-9.
§ Clarke's MSS. T.C.D., Letter ccUu
SARSFIELD'S H0&8E. 151
In the mean time, Sir Richard preferred adhering
to the £dlen fortunes of the Stuart^ rather than to
compromise with the new government. At the petty
court of St. Germains he still filled the office of
* Secretary of State for Ireland/ while his son James
married in that country Margaret, daughter of Colonel
Walter Butler, one of the Officers of this list here-
after alluded to. Colonel O'Eelly speaks of Sir
Richard Nagle as " a person of ability and parts,
generally believed an honest man ;"* while the Duke
of Berwick, in his able memoir says, " he was a
courteous man, of good sense, and well skilled in his
profession, but by no means versed in the affairs of
state." Besides the above Captain Francis Nagle,
there are enrolled in Colonel Gordon O'Neill's Infantry,
Arthur ' Nagle,' a Lieutenant, as was David Nagle
in Sir John Barrett's. This David was one of the
Representatives of Mallow in the Parliament of 1689.
The Nagles attainted in 1691, were Sir Richard, as
before mentioned, John Nagle of Dublin, James and
David of Carrigeen, County of Cork, Andrew of
Youghal, Piers of Annakissy, Garret of Drummins-
town, Richard of Shanballymore, all in the County,
and Peter of the City, of Cork. Sir Richard's for-
feitures extended over nearly 5000 acres in the
Baronies of Fermoy and Duhallow in this County,
also much in Waterford. David Nagle claimed and
was allowed an estate for lives in Cork lands ; while
James Nagle, by Michael Kearney his guardian,
* Exddium Macarice, p. 106.
152 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
claimed certain rights in the Cork lands forfeited by
Piers of Annakissy, and was allowed same after the
death of Piers. Joan Butler, alias Everard, also
claimed the benefit of an assignment of the equity of
redemption in premises forfeited by said Piers.
At the battle of Lauffield, in 1747, a Francis
Nagle, of, it would seem, the kindred of the above
OflScer, being then a Lieutenant in Bulkeley's
Brigade, was taken prisoner.
CAPTAIN JOHN MAC NAMARA.
This Sept were Chiefs of the territory now known
as the Barony of Tulla, with part of that of Bunratty,
County of Clare ; and enjoyed the rank of hereditary
marshals of the O'Briens, Kings of Thomond. They
were very powerful, and had many castles. In 1402,
Quin Abbey was founded in this County for Fran-
ciscan friars by Shedagh Cam Mac Namara, Lord of
Clan-Cuilein ; who appointed it the burial place for
himself and his posterity.* In 1408, Henry the
Fourth granted to Margaret, daughter of ' the Mac Na-
mara,' of the Irish Nation, that she and all her issue
might be free, and use the English habit and law.
In 1496, the Castle of Feyback was taken by the
Lord Deputy from Eugene Mc Namara. In 1543,
the Privy Council of Ireland transmitted a recom-
mendation to the King, advising his Majesty that " an
* Annals of the Four Masters.
sarsfield's horse. 153
Irish Captain, called Shedagh Mac Namara, bordering
on O'Brien's lands and possessing those of Clan-Cullen
in Thomond, sought to be advanced to the honor of
Baron of Clan-Cullen, with his place in Parliament,
offering, if he obtained such distinction, to hold his
territory by Knight's service ; and, for that the said
Mac Namara is a man whose ancestors have in those
parts always borne a great sway, and one that for
himself is of honest conformity, and whose lands lie
wholly on the * fiirside ' of the Shannon, we beseech
Tour Majesty to regard him, but so as not to entitle
him or his heirs to any land or dominion on this side
of the Shannon."* On the occasion of Perrot's Con-
cilation Parliament of 1585, " there went thither
Turlogh, son of Teigue, son of Conor O'Brien, and
the Lord of the western part of Clan-Cullen, namely,
John Mac Namara, i. e., John the son of Teigue, as
one of the Knights of Parliament for the County of
Clare." So say the Four Masters, whose Annals
abound with notices of this ancient Sept. Daniel
Mac Namara of Doone and John Mac Namara of Mori-
orsky were of the Supreme Council that assembled in
1646 at Kilkenny.
This Captain John had livery of his estates in the
County of Clare, out of the Court of Wards in 1637,
and having been ousted in the civil war of 1641, he
was, by a clause in the Act of Settlement, restored to
his principal seat with 2,000 acres of land ; and the
same statute, in the Declaration which it contains of
♦ D'Alton 8 County Dublin, p 162.
154 KING JAMES'S IRISH A&MT LIST.
Royal gratitude for services during the exile, names
this Mac Namara as one who, ^^ for reasons known to
us, in an especial manner merited our grace and
finrour.'' He would seem to be identical with John
Mac Namara of Cruttilagh or Oratloe, who was Sheriff
of Glaxe in 1686-7, and one of its representatives
in the Irish Parliament of 1689, having previously ob-
tained, in October, 1685, a patent firom King James
for erecting the lands of Cratillow into a manor.
In King James's New Charters, Thomas Macna-
mara was a Burgess in that to Limerick ; as were
Florence and John in another to Ennis. Florence
Macnamara was one of the Deputy Lieutenants of
the County of Clare, and he was a C^tain in Lord
Clare's Dragoons, in which Laurence and Daniel
Macnamara were Quarter-Masters. Hugh Macna-
mara commanded a troop of Grenadiers in the Earl
of Tyrone's Infantry ; Miles was a Quarter-Master in
Colonel Cormuck O'Neill's ; while in Colonel Charles
O'Brien's, Donogh and Thady Macnamara were
Captains, and a second Donogh a Lieutenant Teigue
Macnamara, of the Ayle line of this Sept, raised an
independent troop for King James's service after the
battle of the Boyne,* with which he garrisoned the
Castie of Clare, and held it until the capitulation of
Limerick ; in the Articles for which he, being included?
saved his estate and removed to the old family man-
sion at Ayle.f
* Singer's Correspondence of Lord Clarendon, v. 2, p. 514.
t Burke's Landed Grentry, p 813.
sarsfield's horse. 155
Captain John rose to be a Lieutenant-Colonel in
this service. He married to his first wife the Lady
Elizabeth O'Brien, eldest daughter of Murrough, the
first Eari of Inchiquin. She died in 1688,* when it
would appear he married a second time the relict of
Richard Southwell, Esq., father of Sir Thomas South-
well, afterwards Lord Southwell.f John was outlawed,
but was subsequently adjudged within the Articles of
Limerick. Others of the name then attainted were
Florence Macnamara of Dromore, Donogh of Mohir,
Thomas of Limerick, and John of Ralshine, County of
Limerick.
At the Court of Chichester House, John Macna-
mara, styled of ' Creevagh,' claimed and was allowed
a mortgage affecting estates of Lord Clare ; as did
John, the son, heir, and executor of his father James,
the benefit of a mortgage affecting said estates, and
his claim was also allowed. Teigue Macnamara
claimed, in right of his wife, an interest in lands in
the County of Clare, the forfeiting proprietor of which
was Redmond Magrath, — but his claim was disal-
lowed ; as was another claim of his to a £reehold in
Clare lands, forfeited by Lord Clare, and which
Teigue claimed, in right of his father, John Macna-
mara, to whom they had been leased, and who died in
1690.
In 1745 Lieutenant Macnamara, of the Irish Bri-
♦ ArchdaU's Lodge, v. 6, p. 18.
t Thorpe's Cat. Southwell MSS., 241.
156 KING JAMES'S lEISH ARMY LIST.
gade, was killed in Flanders.* And in two years after
died in France, John Macnamara, a distinguished
Admiral in that service ; he was, according to Mac-
Geoghegan, of the grand military order of St. Louis,
and Governor of the Port of Rochford. His nephew
was commander of the ' Frepinne,' in which he took a
number of valuable prizes.f
LIEUTENANT JOHN GAYDON.
An Inquisition, taken post mortem^ 6th July, 1613,
at Naas, finds that John Gaydon, alias Gayton, died
in 1596, seized in fee of a castle, lands, tenements,
&c. in the town of Irishtown, formerly called Bally-
spedagh, in the County of Kildare ; and also of the
Castle, &c. of Strafian, &c. in said County, and of
the lands of Hatton and Ardrosse therein ; and
that his heir is Nicholas Gaydon, now aged thirty-
eight years, and married ; who is in occupation of
said premises, which he holds in common soccage of
the heir of a certain John Fannyn, son and heir of
John Fannyn, Knight. J The outlawries of 1642
record only of this name John * Gaydon' of Irishtown ;
it may be presumed a son of the last mentioned
Nicholas, and identical with the Lieutenant at present
under consideration. The name seems now extinct
in Ireland.
* Gent. Mag. v. 15, p. 276. t Ferrar's Limerick, p. 349.
{ Inq. in Cane. Hib.
sarsfield's horse. 157
LIEUTENANT JAMES ST. JOHN.
This name is of record in Ireland in the fourteenth
century, and in the seventeenth was one of tenure
at Mortellstown in the County of Tipperary ; of
which place it will be remembered was Thomas St.
John, who signed the Petition of 1661, ante^ page
8 ; but nothing worth relating has been discovered
of this individual or of the name, except that, at the
Court of Chichester House in 1703, a James St. John
claimed and was allowed an estate for lives in Carlow
lands forfeited by Dudley Bagnall. A Lieutenant
St. John is said to have submitted to the Government
of King William ; and it is not unlikely that this
officer was the person, as well by the absence of his
name from the KoU of Attainders, as by the presump-
tion that he was the above claimant. His name
appears to be also now extinct in Ireland.
LIEUTENANT THOMAS LEICESTER.
This name, in various modes of spelling, is traced
in Irish records from Edward the Third. In 1357,
John ' de Lecestere,' was nominated Attorney-General
for Ireland. In 1402, William * Lyster' was appoint-
ed to the office of ' Water-Bailly' of Ulster, with a
Clerkship of the Escheats in said County ; he had also
158 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
a grant of lands in the County of Dublin, for the
term of his life.
At its dissolution, the Religious House of Kil-
carmick, in O'Mulloy's Country, (the King's County)
having vested in the Crown, was granted by James
the First, soon after his accession, to Robert Ley-
cester, Grent. with sundry lands in said country. He
subsequently passed patent more extensively for Cas-
tles, Abbeys, Chiefries, and Lands in the several
Counties of Wicklow, Westmeath, Limerick, Sligo,
Donegal, Fermanagh, and Tyrone, with licences for
fairs and markets, &c. The estates in the King's
County (some of which, as Killishell, were parcel of
the estates of the O'Connors of that County, attainted)
remained in his descendants until forfeited by the
above Lieutenant Thomas. His forfeitures in that
County alone comprised two thousand three hundred
acres ; his father, John Leicester, also forfeited con-
siderable interests therein. A Funeral Entry of 1684
in the Office of Arms of Dublin describes this latter indi-
vidual as " John Leicester of Kilcormick in the King's
County, son of Robert, son of Robert, son of John,
son of John. The first mentioned John died last day
of March, and was buried 10th of April at Ballyboy
in said County. He married Margaret, daughter of
Thomas Tyrrel of Simon's Court, County Westmeath,
second son of Richard Tyrrell of Kilbride ; by whom
he had issue one son, Thomas (the above Lieutenant),
and two daughters, Mary and Joane. This Funeral
Entry is, as required, testified by Edward Tyrrel,
sarsfield's horse. 159
brother [in law] of the deceased. Lieutenant Tho-
mas was, therefore, it would appear, the great grand-
son of Robert, the patentee of 1604, who, from an
examination of the lineage of the Leicesters of Toft
Hall in Cheshire, was probably one of the younger
sons of Sir George (who died in 1612), by Alice,
eldest daughter of Peter Leicester of Tabley. The
Inquisition, taken on his attainder, describes him as
late of Ballyboy in the King's County, and to have
been seised of about one thousand acres in that
County, including Corraghmore, Ballycollane, Gur-
teen. Dune, Eilleshill, Eilduff, and the town and
lands of the Monastery of Kilcormick, with a mill,
market, and &ir to the latter appertaining.
LIEUTENANT GEORGE MAYO.
This surname does not occur again in the List,
nor does it at all appear in the Roll of Outlawries ;
where, however, some Meaghs and Meyaghs do. The
name of * May owe* is in the Chancery Rolls, as in
Kerry, in the fourteenth century. That of ' Mayhew'
also occurs in Irish records of about the same period ;
and, in a Roll of Amerceaments of Fines laid upon
Sheriflfe, Mayors, Seneschals, &c., of record in the
Chief Remembrancer's Office, is one of Geoffirey
^Mayhoo' in 1428.
160 RING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
CORNET GEORGE HAUGHTON.
Neither does this name appear again on the List,
nor in the attainders of the period. On the 21st of
December, 1690, Thomas * Haghton' was appointed
to the office of Second Sergeant at Arms, and on the
28th March following had a grant of the office of
Clerk of the Crown and Peace of the County of Dub-
lin.* A certain George Haughton obtained, in the
time of Charles the Second, a fiat for a grant of the
manor, town and lands of Bame, in the County of
Longford ; but died in 1682, before obtaining pos-
session, leaving George Haughton, Junior, his son
and heir, then a minor of but five years of age.
It is just possible that, in the enthusiasm of the
period, he, though only thirteen years of age at the
time of this campaign, may have been the above
Cornet Greorge. George junior was, during his
life, involved in litigation concerning the said
manor of Bame, and died in 1732, seised of two
other manors, that of Bormount in Wexford, and
Eilthorpe in Rutlandshire, England.f
QUARTER MASTER THOMAS LILLY.
Neither is this name again on the List, nor in the
Outlawries.
* Rolls Office. t Appeal Cases.
sarsfield's nORSE. 161
QUARTER.MASTER WILLIAM SYNNOTT.
This family is descended from an ancient and
honorable stock of Norman extraction. They were
possessed of lands in Ireland from the time of the
Invasion, and in the County where it first found
footing. In 1365, John 'Synath' was one of the
influential proprietors of this County (Wexford)
directed by the Crown, according to the custom of
the time, to elect its Sheriffi Sir John Synnot, after
the Desmond war, passed out of Ireland to foreign
parts.* In 1607, William Synnatt of Ballyfemock
had a grant of various lands within the district of
O'Murrough's Country (County of Wexford), "with
certain custom sheep, called summer sheep, and cer-
tain ^akates^ upon and in O'Murrough's Country,
where the said lands lie ; with all other customs,
duties, and hereditaments to same belonging, and
which came to King Edward the Sixth by the attain-
der of Donell O'Murrough.^f This grant was subse-
quently renewed to his son Walter Synnott. In
1649, David Synnot was Governor of Wexford when
that town was besieged by Cromwell ; and in its gal-
lant though unsuccessful defence he lost his life. In
1650, Oliver Synnot came over in commission from
the Duke of Lorraine, on the occasion of his Grace's
♦ Manuscripts T.C.D., E 3, 15.
t Pat. Roll in Cane. Hib.
M
162 KING James's irish army list.
memorable proffer of aid to the Royal cause.* This
same Oliver, it would appear, was in the following
year Commander of the Fort of Ardkyn in the Isle of
Arran.f No other Synnott appears in this Army
List, and, from the 'Landed Gentry^ of Sir Bernard
Burke (f. 1347), this Quarter-Master William would
seem to have been of the Ballytramoi^ line.
In King James's Charters, Dominick Synnot was
an Alderman in that to Waterford ; Richard a Bai-
liff in that to Wexford ; and, on the Establishment of
1687-8, James Synnot was placed for a pension of £50.
The outlawries of 1691 comprise the names of
John * Sinnott' of Middletown, County of Wexford ;
as also of James and Richard Synnott of Wexford,
Richard and Walter ' Sinnott' of Church town, Ross-
beare ; Stephen ' Sinnott' of Ballynant, Pierce ' Sin-
nott' of House wood, and John Synnott of Kilcotty,
all in the County of Wexford ; with Francis Synnott
of Waterford, and Michael Synnott of Graigue, County
of Leitrim.
QUARTER-MASTER SYLVESTER DEVENISH.
The Norman surname of 'Le Devenys,' is of the earli-
est introduction into Ireland. In 1302, Nicholas
*Deveneys' had military summons for the Scottish
war. In 1308, William 'de Devenys' was one of the
* O'Conor's Hist Address, part 2. p. 446.
t Hardiman's Galway, p. 319.
SARSFIELD'S HORSE. 163
Justices of the Irish Bench ; and in the same year,
John 'Le Devenys' had livery of seisin of his lands
there, as holding in capite from the Crown. In 1356,
Maurice and Nicholas Devenys were of the influential
proprietors of Kilkenny, who in that year elected John
Fitz-Oliver de la Freyne into the Shrievalty of their
County. In 1488, Richard Devenys did homage to
Sir Richard Edgecombe at Kinsale.* In 1509, Pet^r
'Devenish' was a prebendary of Saggard, in St.
Patrick's Cathedral; and, while in that office, witnessed
the surrender of the possessions of Glendalough to the
See of Dublin.t
An old Family Pedigree, however, derives this
Quarter-master from Sir John Devenish of Hellen-
leagh in England, a descendant of whom, Edmund
Devenish, came to Ireland in 1512, and married a
daughter of Sir Roland Penthony. Their eldest son
George, the first of the family born in Ireland, built
the large mansion in the town of Athlone, (hence
known to a very recent period as Court Devenish)
where he settled ; and, marrying Cecilia, daughter of
Thomas Fitzgerald, was the lineal ancestor of the
above Sylvester, as well as of George and Thomas
Devenish, who were attainted with him in 1691, all
being described as 'of Athlone, County Westmeath.'
From said George, likewise sprung the existing
family of Devenish of Rush-hill and Mountpleasant,
in the County of Roscommon. Edmund, who mar-
* Harrises Hibernica, part 2, p. 36.
f D' Alton's Archbishops of Dublin.
M 2
164 RING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
ried Miss Penthony, had by her a second son, James,
who was seised of premises in the County of Dublin,
in 1637, and was the ancestor of Major-General John
James Devenish, in 1728 Governor of Courtray in
the Low Countries.
It is to be observed that a Major Devenish is noted
in the Raicdon Papers (p. 355) as having been killed
in this campaign, in William's service ; while a de-
spatch of the Duke of Marlborough in 1716, from the
camp before Dundermond, mentions that a Colonel
Devenish had proffered to bring over an Irish regi-
ment to the Allies from the service of the ' Enemy,' a
proposal which was afterwards entertained.*
REGIMENTS OF HORSE.
CLAUD HAMILTON, EARL OF ABERCORN'S.
Captamg.
Lieutenants.
Comets. Quarter. Masters.
The Colonel.
Lieatenant-Colonel.
Thomas Corbet,
Major.
Gerald Aylmer.
Nicholas Bellew.
John Hnrlin.
John Rice.
Thomas Hiffernan.
Gerald Dillon.
Thomas Boorke.
Charles Redmond.
* Murray's Marlborough Despatches, v. 3, p. 117.
AB£RCORN*S HORSE. 165
COLONEL CLAUD HAMILTON, EARL OF
ABERCORN.
The Illustrious House of Hamilton claims descent
from Bernard, a noble of the blood Royal of Saxony,
second in command to RoUo, the renowned Duke of
Normandy, at the close of the ninth century. Hum-
phrey, the great grandson of this nobleman, lived in the
eleventh, founded and endowed the Abbey of Preaux
in Normandy, and was there buried. His son, Roger
de Beaumont, was one of the council who encouraged
William the Conqueror to invade England ; and
Roger's son, Robert, married the grand-daughter of
Henry the First, King of France, commanded the
right wing of the Conqueror's army at the great bat-
tle of Hastings, and was created Earl of Leicester in
1103. Robert, the third Earl of Leicester, grandson
of the first, died and was buried in Greece on his
return from the Holy Land in 1190. His sister,
having been married to the Earl of Pembroke, was
mother of ' Strongbow.' The eldest son of the last
named Robert died without issue ; his second son,
Roger, was Bishop of St. Andrews ; and his third son,
William, having been born at Hambledon in Leicester-
shire, took his surname ' de Hamilton ' from that
place, and was the more especial stock of the widely
extended families of the name. About the year
1215, having gone into Scotland to visit his sister,
who was married to the Earl of Winton, he was
there well received by the Scottish King, under
166 KING James's irish army list.
whose favour he settled there, and intermarried with
the daughter and representative of the Earl of
Strathem. His son, Sir Gilbert, married Isabella,
niece to Sir Robert Bruce, and their son particularly
distinguished himself at Bannockburn, on whose field
he was knighted. It is of family tradition that Sir
Gilbert, the younger son of this knight, having spoken
in honorable terms of Robert Bruce at the Court of
King Edward in 1325, received a taunting insult
from John de Spencer, and a rencontre was the con-
sequence, in which the latter fell. Hamilton, there-
upon, a stranger as he was, apprehensive of court
influence and resentment against him, fled for Scot-
land ; when, being closely pursued into a forest, he
and his servant change^l clothes with two wood-
cutters, and, taking their Kaw, were cutting through
an oak tree when their purwui^rs came up. Perceiving
his servant's attention UMt much fixed upon them, he
hastily reminded him of the part he was to act, by the
word ^through;' rebuked by which presence of mind,
the servant resumed his work, the pursuers passed
unsuspectingly, and Sir Gilbert adopted the call
^throughy with the oak tree and saw, as his motto and
crest. Such were the armorials of the Earl of Aber-
com, and the many Hamiltons that succeeded of that
stock. Soon after Sir Gilbert's arrival in Scotland, he
obtained a grant of the Barony of Cadzow in Lanark-
shire, thenceforth called Hamilton.* In 1346, Sir
David ' Huml)l('t()n ' of Cadzow, accompanied King
* Soc ArchdalTs Lodged Piiorago, v. 5, p. 88 ct soq.
abercorn'8 horse. 167
David Bruce to the battle of Durham, where he was
taken prisoner with his Royal master ; but having
been soon after ransomed, he was one of the * Mag-
nates Scotise,' who assembled at Scone to acknowledge
John, Earl of Carrick, eldest son of King Robert the
Second, to be undoubted heir to the throne. In 1445,
Sir John Hamilton, grandson of the before mentioned
Sir David of Cadzow, was joined with the Earl of
Angus in the command of the Royal Army, on the
memorable occasion when the Earl of Douglas was
totally routed. In 1474, Sir James Hamilton, Lord
Hamilton of Cadzow, the lineal descendant of William
who first assumed the name, was married to the Prin-
cess Mary, eldest daughter of James the Second, King
of Scotland. His daughter married the Earl of
Lennox and Damley, and was thus the ancestress
of James the Second of this campaign.
Having so far written of this noble family in Scot-
land, its introduction into Ireland in the time of
James the First, and its rapid and honorable exten-
sion over that kingdom to the time of the Revolution,
are subjects of more native interest. In 1698, Hans
Hamilton, the lineal descendant of the Lords of Cad-
zow, died minister of Dunlop in Scotland. His eldest
son, James Hamilton, was the first of the family who
settled in Ireland in his father's life-time, having been
sent thither with James Fullarton, by James the Sixth,
afterwards the First of England, to encourage his ad-
herents and secure his interest in that country. The
more prudently to efiectuate which object, and not to
168 KING James's irish army list.
obtrude the real motives of their mission, they
assumed the character and office of school-masters,
and actually presided over that Grammar-school
where Primate Usher received his rudiments, and
from which he entered Trinity College under said
James Hamilton, then a Fellow of tliis University.
King James, on his accession to the Crown of Eng-
land, rewarded the services of this his agent by exten-
sive grants of lands in the County of Down, and con-
ferred on him successively the honour of Knighthood
and the titles of Viscount Claneboy and Earl of Clan-
brassil, which title became extinct on the failure of
his line in his grandson Viscount Claneboy. The
Earl also acquired considerable estates in the County
of Louth, by assignment from Sir Nicholas Bagnal,
and having invited his brothers from Scotland to par-
ticipate in the advantages which his rank, property
and influence gave him in Ireland, five of them accord-
ingly came over. Of these, Archibald, the second
son of Hans, became the ancestor of the Hamiltons of
Killileagh and Killough ; Gawen, the third son, was an-
cestor of Robert Hamilton of Kildare ; John Hamilton,
the fourth son, settling in Armagh, married Sarah,
daughter of Sir Robert Brabazon, and from their
union sprang the Hamiltons of Mount Hamilton,
County of Carlow, those of Sheep Hill, County of
Dublin, and of Rock-Hamilton, County of Down.
William Hamilton, the fifth son of Hans, was ancestor
of the lines of Bangor, Tyrella, Balbriggan, and Tolly-
more ; as was Patrick Hamilton of the Hamiltons of
abercorn's horse. 169
Granshaw, and Mount Clithero, some of whom
returned to Scotland, while others are yet established
in the Barony of Ardes.
In 1615, James Hamilton of Cadzow acquired the
manor of Drumkea, with the Islands in the County of
Fermanagh ; which he afterwards sold to John Arch-
dall, who took out a fresh patent thereof Robert
Hamilton likewise then acq;uired considerable estates
in that County, and Sir Claud Hamilton became
seized of upwards of 3,000 acres in the County of
Cavan, as were other members of this family of differ-
ent tracts therein. In 1618, James, the second Earl
of Abercorn, eldest son of the first, was created Lord
Hamilton, Baron of Strabane ; which honor was how-
ever, on his Lordship's petition, transferred to his next
brother, the Honorable Claud Hamilton, who had
married a daughter of the first Marquis of Huntly,
and died in 1638, leaving by her Sir James, his eldest
son. Lord Strabane, who was drowned in 1655 ; when
the title devolved upon Claud, the fourth Lord Stra-
bane, and fifth Earl of Abercorn, he having been the
son and heir of George Hamilton, (the brother of
James) by a sister of Richard Fagan of Feltrim,
hereafter mentioned, a Captain in the Royal Regiment
of Infantry ; and this Earl Claud was the Colonel of
the present Regiment of Horse.
Other sons of James, the first Earl of Abercorn,
besides James the second Earl, and Claiide the third,
were Sir William Hamilton, who died s.p., and George
of Dunalong, created a Baronet of Ireland in 1660, for
170 KING James's irish army list.
his services to the Royal cause. His issue will be
alluded to hereafter. The Acts of Settlement and
Explanation, in 1662-5, contained a saving for
arrears due to this Sir George, and also an appropri-
ation of one third of the estate of Sir Nicholas
Plunkett for him. In 1673, he was commissioned by
the Earl of Essex, then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,
on the King's order, to recruit a Regiment of Infantry
for the service of France, which was ultimately raised
and did active duty under Turenne on the Rhine, in
that year and the ensuing.*
The Colonel at present under consideration
attended King James from France to Ireland ; on
his arrival in Dublin, was sworn of the Privy Council,
and sat in the Parliament of 1689.t He was
engaged in Lord Mount-Cashers unsuccessful expedi-
tion against the Enniskilleners, and was wounded on
that occasion. On the 28th of April, 1688, when
James Hamilton, who afterwards succeeded to the
Peerage, had brought arms and ammunition into
Derry, this Lord Claud, says Walker, in his work on
the siege, (p. 23) " came up to our walls, making us
many proposals and offering his King's pardon, protec-
tion, and favour, if we would surrender the town; but
these fine words had no place with the Garrison."
After the defeat at the Boyne, when the Duke of Ber-
wick sought to rally about 7,000 foot at Brazeel, near
Dublin, three of the troops, sent out by King James
* O'Conor's Military Memoirs, p. 87.
t Somers' State Tracts, v. 11, p. 434.
abercorn's horse. 171
to cover his retreat, were of Abercorn's Horse. This
colonel himself subsequently embarked for France
with James, but lost his life on the voyage. He was
attainted in 1691, the earliest act of his treason
having been assigned to the 1st of March, 1688. The
Inquisition held on his outlawry at Strabane, finds
him to have been seized of an immense tract of
townlands in the County of Tyrone, with sundry
chief rents and tenements. On his attainder, the
estates and title of Strabane became forfeited, but the
Earldom descended to his brother Charles, who, far-
ther obtaining a reversal of Lord Claud's outlawry,
succeeded to the restored title of Strabane, and died
in 1701 without issue, when the honours and estates
devolved upon his kinsman,
JAMES HAMILTON:
Who had been in the military service and confidence
of James the Second, but, espousing the cause of Wil-
liam, took, as before suggested, a distinguished part
at the siege of Derry against his former master.* He
arrived in that city on the 20th of March, 1688, from
England, with arms and ammunition for the citizens,
and a Conmiission for Colonel Lundy to be Governor;
whereupon William and Mary were proclaimed the
sovereigns in that city. In June, 1690, previous to
* Burke's Peerage, pp. 1 & 2.
172 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
the battle of the Boyne, this James Hamilton was ixj-
commended to the especial notice of Sir Robert South-
well, then King William's Irish Secretary, by a letter
from Colonel Fitz-patrick, in which he said, " the
bearer hereof. Colonel James Hamilton, married the
Earl of Monmouth's sister ; he has the best estate of
all the Hamiltons in the North of Ireland, is a very
rational and well affected gentleman, and as such I
recommend him to you. If there he any occasion to
employ stick men, you will find him an honest sober
man."* On the death of Colonel Lord Claud in 1701,
this latter individual succeeded to the titles, and in
1706 took his seat in the Scottish Parliament. Ire-
land however was his usual place of residence, and of
that realm he was in December, 1701, created Baron
Mountcastle and Viscount Strabane. He had
married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Sir Robert
Reading, Baronet, of Dublin, by whom he had nine
sons and four daughters, and died in November,
1734.t
There were various other Hamiltons concerned at
each side in this unfortunate Civil War. On James's
side were also,
BRIGADIER-GENERAL RICHARD
HAMILTON,
Of whose policy, the Commissioners, who were sent
♦ Thorpe's Cat. SouthweU MSS., p. 179.
f Burke's Peerage, p. 2.
abercorn's horse. 173
over to St. Gemiains to complain of Tyrconnel,
expressed great dissatisfaction * they considering it
temporising. His name appears on the establishment
of 1687-8, as one of the Brigadiers on pay of £497
10s. He was a Roman Catholic, the fifth son of the
aforesaid Sir George Hamilton of Donalong, and had
served with considerable reputation in France ; but
was banished from that country on account of his un-
pardonably aspiring addresses to the Princess de
Conti, the daughter of the French King. He was the
officer whom Tyrconnel entrusted with the command
of 2,500 men, to make head against the rebels in
Ulster, and whose partial success against them at
Dromore, and forcing them back to Coleraine, was the
first auspicious intelligence which King James
learned on his arrival in Dublin. He forced the pass
at Clareford, " his horse swimming across the water,
because the enemy had broke the bridge :"! and had
afterwards the important confidential command of the
army besieging Deny. On the 15th June, 1689, he
caused the boom to be drawn across the Foyle, to pre-
vent the entry of expected vessels for the relief of
that city. It was by his advice King James took the
precaution of stationing Sir Neill O'Neill, with his
Dragoons, at the ford of the Boyne near Slane,J and on
the day of the battle he led a Regiment of Infantry to
the very margin of that river, to oppose the passage
of King William's forces. In the last charge, he was
♦ Clarke's James II. vol. 2, p. 423. f l^em, v. 2, p. 331.
X D'Alton s Drogheda, v. 2, p. 823.
174 KING James's irish army list.
routed, wounded and taken prisoner. On the close of
the campaign he betook himself to France, where, in
1696, at Calais, the^oyal Exile, possibly under some
expectation of an invasion for the assertion of his
restoration, confirmed him Lieutenant-General of his
forces, and in a few days after appointed him Master of
the Robes.* Leslie says that throughout his^ service
in Ulster he zealously protected the Protestants, and
kept his soldiers under strict discipline-f
Another officer of this name and service, but not
commissioned on this Roll, though afterwards ap-
pointed the Lieutenant-Colonel of Lord Mount-
CasheFs Infantry, was
COLONEL ANTHONY COUNT HAMILTON.
He had distinguished himself in the command of the
Regiment which his father. Sir George Hamilton of
Dunalong, had, as before mentioned, raised in 1673,
and was honored with the rank of Major-General by
the French King. In 1676, he served under the
Duke of Luxemburg in Alsace. (See of him, post^
at Lord Mount-CasheFs Infantry.) He had a brother
the more remarkable and truly gallant
GEORGE COUNT HAMILTON ;
Of whom, although not strictly within the proposed
• Clarke's James II., v. 2, p. 643.
t Leslie's Answer to King.
abercorn's horse. 175
scope of these Illustrations, it may be said that,
having been, some years previous to this Civil War,
banished on account of his persecuted creed from the
Court of Charles the Second, he commanded an Irish
Regiment under Louis the Fourteenth, and was
engaged in the campaigns of 1673-5 under Marshal
Turenne. In the latter year, when Turenne fell by
a cannon ball, the French army was saved from utter
destruction by this gaUant Irishman, as very fully and
graphically detailed in O'Conor's ^Recollections of Swit-
zerland.^ In 1676, he was serving under the Prince
de Conde ; but on the march towards Sauveme, was
killed in the neighbourhood of Zebernstieg, with a
large part of the three Regiments which he commanded,
and but for whose gallant conduct the French would,
as on the former occasion, have been entirely cut
down.
So numerous nevertheless were the Hamiltons, who
espoused the cause of King William, even before his
coming over to Ireland, that, in King James's Parlia-
ment of May, 1689, no le3s than forty-six of the name
were attainted or otherwise proscribed. Colonel Gus-
tavus Hamilton, it may be mentioned, particularly
distinguished himself for William at the battle of the
Boyne ; and yet more signally by wading through the
Shannon, and storming the town of Athlone, at the
head of the English Grenadiers.
George Hamilton, fifth son of the Earl of Selkirk?
likewise distinguished himself at the Boyne under the
same Monarch, as well as at Aughrim in 1691, at
176 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
Steenkirk in 1692, and at Landen in the following
year. By reason of all which and other military
achievements, he was in 1695 advanced to the Peerage
as Earl of Orkney, and had grants of a considerable
proportion of the private estates of King James in
Ireland. In 1704, he acquitted himself heroically at
the battle of Blenheim ; in 1706, was at the siege of
Menin ; in 1708, commanded the van of the army at
the passing of the Scheldt, assisted at the siege of
Tournay, was at the battle of Malplaquet, and render-
ed numerous other services, which were rewarded with
a succession of honors to the time of his death in
1736.
In 1691, Henry Hamilton of Baillieborough,
(lineal ancestor of James Hans Hamilton, Esq. of
Sheep-Hill, one of the present Members of Parliament
for the County of Dublin,) was killed on the walls of
Limerick. The outlawries of this year exhibit the
names of the above Earl of Abercorn, Darby Hamil-
ton of Athlone ; John, Richard, and Anthony Hamil-
ton of Dublin ; Robert of Hamilton's-Bawn, County
of Armagh ; and Richard and John Hamilton of
Pennyburn-Mill, County of Londonderry. In 1693,
a petition was got up on behalf of the British Protes-
tants of Ireland, setting forth their services in estab-
lishing English Government, and suggesting that, as
intentions were avowed by certain outlawed exiles, of
bringing writs of error to reverse their attainders, the
petitioners therefore prayed securities from the Legis-
lature against any such attempts. This document
abercorn's horse. 177
was signed by James Hamilton, M.P. for the
Borough of Tullamore, another James Hamilton, one
of the Representatives of the County of Down, and
Hans Hamilton, M.P. for Killileagh.*
At the Court of Claims in 1700, the charges which
were sought to be established against this Earl of
Abercorn's estates were, by William Hamilton, who
claimed, and was allowed, as " grandson and heir of
William, who was son and heir of William Hamilton,"
a fee farm by descent in the Tyrone lands forfeited by
the Earl. James Hamilton, senior, claimed and was
allowed sundry other interests therein, as was also
John Hamilton ; while Lady Elizabeth, Baroness Dow-
ager of Strabane, claimed dower thereoff ; and many
creditors and sub-lessees petitioned for the benefit of
their several interests. Colonel Gustavus Hamilton
also sought and was allowed the amount of sundry
bond-debts against this estate. On the same occasion,
Anne Hamilton, widow of Sir Robert Hamilton,
Knight, and others, as Executors of James Hamilton
deceased, claimed and were allowed a judgment debt
charged on the estates of Valentine Russell attainted.
COLONEL JOHN HAMILTON
Is particularly mentioned hereafter, as the Colonel of
an Infantry Regiment.
• Rawdon Papers, pp. 372-3.
178 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
In relation to the Balbriggan Hamiltons, (sprung
from William, the fifth son, as before mentioned, of
the Keverend Hans Hamilton, the lineal descendant
of the Lords of Cadzow,) Alexander, who from the
year 1739 to 1760 represented the Borough of Kil-
lileagh in the Irish Parliament, became the purchaser
of Balbriggan, which passed on his decease to his
son, the Honorable George Hamilton, member of Par-
liament for Belfast, afterwards a Baron of the Ex-
chequer, and yet more distinguished for public spirit
in promoting the trade and welfare of his country.
He died at Oswestry in 1793, and was buried in the
family vault at Balrothery. Alexander had another
son, Hugh, a Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, Dean
of Armagh, next advanced to the See of Clonfert, and
afterwards to that of Ossory. On the Baron's death,
the Balbriggan property descended to his son, the
Reverend George Hamilton, and from him to his son,
George Alexander Hamilton, heretofore a member of
Parliament for the City of Dublin, and now for its
University. He is the lineal descendant in the
twenty-fifth degree from Bernard, the nobleman of
Saxony noticed as the founder of the Family of
Hamilton ; and this long line of ancestry could not be
more proudly represented in honour, integrity, and
honesty of purpose than by George Alexander Hamil-
ton.
abercorn's horse. 179
MAJOR THOMAS CORBET.
This surname is traced on Irish record from the time
of Edward the Third, in which reign John ' Corbett '
was 'Constable' of the Castle of Limerick. It is not,
however, associated with the character of achieve-
ment that marks the chief families of this ' List.' In
1655, Miles Corbet, one of the Regicides, of whom a
full account is given in ' The History of the County
of Dublin^ (p. 194) was appointed Chief Baron of
the Irish Exchequer, and was subsequently one of the
Commissioners of the Great Seal of Chancery. The
above Major Thomas, having risen in the campaign,
appears to have been the 'Lieutenant-Colonel Cor-
bet,' who, according to Story, " came to De Ginkle,
and proposed the bringing over of Tyrconnel's and
Gralmoy's Regiments of Horse, and out of them to
make one good regiment to serve their Majesties in
Flanders," provided he should have the command.
Another Corbet was appointed Major of
Colonel Dudley Bagnall's Infantry, as noted post.
CAPTAIN GERALD AYLMER.
This family, (which deduces its descent from Saxon
times, from Ailmer Earl of Cornwall, who lived in the
reign of King Ethelred,) settled in the County of
Kildare at the close of the thirteenth centuiy. In
N 2
180 KING JAMES'8 IRISH ARMY LIST.
1525, Sir (Jerald Aylmer was advanced to the Chief
Justiceship of the Common Pleas, and in 1535, was
made Chief Baron ; in which latter year Richard
Aylmer was appointed Chief Sergeant of the County
of Kildare. He was then residing at Lyons in that
County, which became thenceforth, as in truth it had
long previously been, the ancestral seat of the elder
stock. 'From him in the direct line descended George
Aylmer, hereafter alluded to as a Captain in Colonel
Roger Mac EUigott's Infantry. Gerald, the third son
of Richard, settled at Donadea, was knighted in 1605,
became a Baronet in 1621, and his line is still re-
presented in Sir Grerald George Aylmer of Donadea
Castle, Premier Baronet ; while another, that of Bal-
rath or Dollardstown, was founded by the Right
Honourable Gerald Aylmer, Knight, second son of
Bartholomew Aylmer of Lyons. lie was appointed
one of the Justices of the Common Pleas in Ireland
in 1532; promoted to the Exchequer in 1534; in
1535, further elevated to the Chief Justiceship of the
Common Pleas ; in which latter year, on the occasion
of the Battle of Bellahoa, where the forces of the Pale
defeated O'Neill, this Chief Justice was, with Talbot
of Malahide and the Mayors of Dublin and Drogheda,
respectively knighted on the field ; and, as Cox
observes, "well they merited the honor for their good
service in obtaining so great a victory, which broke
the power of the North and quieted the borders for
some years."* In 1553, he was appointed Lord Chief
♦ D' Alton s Drogheda, v. 2, p. 193.
abercorn's horse. 181
Justice of the Queen's Bench. His descendant, Mat-
thew Aylmer, a distinguished naval oflScer, was in
1692 appointed Rear Admiral of the Red Squadron,
and sent to the Mediterranean, where he acquired
great reputation by his management in arranging
treaties with the various states of Northern Africa.
He for some time represented Dover in Parliament,
and was raised to the Peerage of Ireland in 1718, by
the title of Lord Aylmer, Baron of Balrath, a dignity
which still exists. Of his line was the above Captain
Gerald.
On the dissolution of Monasteries, Nicholas Aylmer
acquired parcels of the possessions of the respective
religious houses of Monasterevan and Naas, County of
Kildare, and of the Commandery of Knights Hospital-
lers of Killure, County of Waterford. Garret Aylmer
was one of the gentry who attended in 1641 the
meeting on Crofty Hill.
The Act of Settlement (1662) contained a saving
for Sir Andrew Aylmer of Donadea of his estate, while
the clause of Royal Thanks therein, for " services
beyond the seas," includes the name of Captain Gar-
ret Aylmer.
In Colonel Roger Mac Elligott's Infantry, George
Aylmer was, as before suggested, a Captain ; while
Peter Aylmer was a Lieutenant. At the siege of
Deny in 1689, Sir Garret Aylmer was taken prisoner,
nor was he released on exchange until May, 1691.*
^The Aylmers attainted in the last year were
• Story's Impartial History, part 2, p. 76.
182 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
Gerald or Garret Aylmer of Balrath, George Ayl-
raer of Caronstown, Christopher and Richard of Senes-
chalstown, Garret of Lyons, George of Dublin, Gar-
ret of Pennybum-mill, County of Deny, Knight, and
Lady Ellen Aylmer of Sallins. Sir Gerald Aylmer
was held entitled to the benefit of the Articles of
Limerick^ as were also Peter Aylmer and Colonel
George (of whom post). In 1705, a 'Mr. Aylmer,'
having memorialled for leave to return to Ireland,
his petition was referred to Sir Richard Cox, who at
the close of September in that year writes, " I don't
see any great difficulty in it ; he must by Act of Par-
liament pay 40 shillings per annum to a Free
School, and his licence costs about 30s. to the several
officers ; and it cannot be of any consequence, that a
few silly fellows may be suffered to eat potatoes and
spend their money in their native country.'' A few
days after he writes, '' I won't bum my fingers about
Aylmer ; if there be any difficulty in it, let it alone."
At the Battle of Lauffield, in 1747, 'Elmer,' a
Lieutenant in Clare's Regiment, was wounded.
CAPTAIN JOHN RICE.
This name is recognised in Ireland since the thirteenth
century. In 1294, John Rice was Lord Treasurer of
this Kingdom. In the fifteenth, the name appears
amongst the Corporate Officials of Limerick, of which
town, Walter Rice was Mayor in 1520. In the reign
abercorn's horse. 183
of Elizabeth, Stephen Rice came over as an under-
taker, and settled at Dingle in Kerry, which County
he represented in the Parliaments of King James the
First. He married Ellen Trant, and died in 1622, as
commemorated by an old gravestone in the churchyard
of Dingle, whereon it is stated that his age at the
time of his decease was 80 years, and that his ' loyal
wife,' EUena Trant, who died five years before him,
lies there also. — His eldest son and heir, James Rice,
stiled of Ballinruddell, first married Eleanor, daughter
of Robert White of Limerick, and secondly, Phillis
Fanning of Limerick, by which last wife he left issue
eight sons and three daughters. His eldest son, James,
who succeeded to the family estate, was attainted in
1 642, and his confiscation was granted to
MuUins ; while James's son and heir, Edward Rice,
(who was one of the Confederate Catholics at Kilken-
ny in 1646), marrying Alice, daughter of Sir William
Sheircliffe, one of Cromwell's officers, acquired through
her the estate of Castle-Gregory, theretofore forfeited
by one of the Husseys. Stephen Rice, the fifth son of
said James, by Phillis Fanning, was in 1685 ap-
pointed a Privy Councillor, and in 1686 a Baron of
the Irish Exchequer, though ' a papist,' his taking
the oath of supremacy having been dispensed with.*
In the following year he was made Chief Baron, and
knighted, was of Tyrconnel's suite in the interview
with King James at Chester, and was the chief agent
in representing to His Majesty such an aspect of Irish
♦ Clarendon's State Letters, v. 2, p. 420.
•184 RLNG James's irish army list.
' feeling as he thought he was justified in offering.
On Tyrconners departure for France, Sir Stephen
Rice was left by him, joined in commission with Sir
Richard Nagle, for the government of Ireland ; and it
is said that the unexecuted patents for making him,
Sir Patrick Trant, and Robert Grace, Peers of Ire^
land, were found at Dublin Castle on King William's
arrival there.* Sir Stephen was attainted in 1691,
but adjudged within the articles of Limerick. His
exertions, in opjwsing the passing of the unfortunate
Bill " to prevent the further growth of Popery," are
alluded to ante^ at Lord Galmoy, p. 104. After the
Revolution he remained in Ireland in possession of a
large property, died in 1714, and was buried in St.
James's churchyard, Dublin, with many of his fellow
labourers in the Stuart cause, and more especially
beside Sir Toby Butler. By his will, he left his
estates chiefly to his eldest son, Edward Rice ; but,
as Sir Stephen died * a Papist,' these estates would
have passed in gavel had not Edward conformed,
which he did, and died himself in 1720,t having
erected a costly monument over his father's grave.
The other sons of Sir Stephen, by his wife Mary
Fitzgerald, were James and Thomas.J His lady
survived him, and was executrix of his will.
In King James's new Chaiiiers, Francis Rice, mer-
chant, was a Burgess in that to Dublin ; while in that
♦ Memoirs of the Grace Family, p. 42.
t Howard's Popery Cases, p. 71, &c.
X Archdairs Lodge's Peerage, v. 2, p. 54.
ABEROPRX'S horse: 18i5
to Limerick, John Rice Fitz-William, John Rice Fitz^ '
Edward, and the above Sir' Stephen Rice were Bip:- .
gesses, the latter being also named an Alderman in
the Charter to Waterfbrd. Peter Rice was a Burgess
in that to Ennis, as was Robert in that to Einsale.
^ In the Parliament of 1689, Edward was one of
the Representatives of the Borough of Askeaton, as
was Edward Fitz- James Rice, of Ballinleggin, County
of Limerick, (who had been previously Sheriff of
Limerick) one of those for the Borough of Dingle-i-
couch.
Of the few contemporaneous documents that have
been sent in to aid those Illustrations, one concerns
the above Captain. It is an order from the Colonel
of this Regiment to Alderman John Leonard of Lim-
erick, directing him to pay to this Captain John Rice
the sum of £175 ; "being the proportion that comes
to him for the * mounting* our two troops, he ' given'
you his receipt for it.^ The order is dated 9th of
March, 1689, three days before the King landed at
Kinsale, and the receipt is indorsed 14th, two days
after that event. . Another John Rice was a Captain
in Colonel Charles O'Bryan's Infantry, and either of
these Johns appears identical with the Colonel John
Rice, who, after the surrender of Limerick, brought in
to King William a Regiment of Horse, on the faith
of being received into the establishment on English
pay.
The Rices attainted in 1691 were Edward Rice of
Askeaton, Edward Fitz- James Rice of Ballyquelig,
186 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
County of Limerick, John Rice of Clonee, County of
Carlow, John Rice of Limerick, merchant, and David
of Dingle, County of Kerry ; while Nicholas and Tho-
mas Rice were adjudged within the Articles of Lime-
rick. Edward Rice forfeited a fishing weir and some
lands and tenements in Kerry, with very large estates
in Limerick ; portions charged upon which were
claimed by his only daughter Elizabeth, wife of
Thomas Arthur, and by others. Claims were also
made at Chichester House by Thomas Rice for a
leasehold mortgage on Kerry lands, forfeited by Ni-
cholas Skiddy ; the deed creating the incumbrance
was witnessed by Dominick Rice, Thomas Rice, &c.
and the claim was allowed. Thomas Rice and Mary
his wife claimed and were allowed a portion, charged
by the will of her father James Rice on Kerry lands
forfeited by Edward Rice. John Rice Fitz- William
claimed and was allowed a freehold interest in lands
in the County of Limerick, forfeited by Nicholas
Browne and Helen his wife. Piers Arthur and Mary
his wife, late widow of Edward Rice Fitz-James,
claimed her jointure off the lands of Ballyneety, in
the County of Kerry, forfeited by said Edward.
James Rice, before mentioned as the eldest son of
Sir Stephen by his second wife, married Susanna,
daughter of Sir Henry O'Brien, by whom he had
issue two sons, Stephen and Francis. Stephen, the
eldest son, succeeded at Mount-Rice, and died in
1755, leaving issue Stephen, who married the daugh-
abercorn's horse. 187
ter of Joshua Meredith.* From Thomas, the second
son of Sir Stephen, it is alleged that Lord Monteagle
is descehded.
In 1790, the Right Honorable James Louis Count
Rice, of the Holy Roman Empire, sold the lands of
Dingle to George Nagle.
CORNET THOMAS HIFFERNAN.
The O'Heffernans possessed a territory about Corofin
in the County of Clare, called from them Muintir-
Ifemain, from which stock a branch was transplanted
to the Barony of Owny and Arra, County of Tippe-
rary. " Their war-cry ,** says Ware,t " was ' Ceart-
na-suas-aboe,' i. e. *the cause of right from above,'
alluding perhaps to their crest, which was an armed
hand, couped at the wrist and erect, holding a broken
sword, all proper^ signifying, as it would seem, that
there was no justice to be expected from the sword,
but from the protection of Heaven.*' Mr. Hardiman,
in his Irish Minstrelsy^ has preserved a poem written
about a century since, much in the spirit of that
war-cry as Ware interprets it, and by an O'Heffeman,
William *dall,' the blind. The poem is entitled
' Cliona of the Rock,' and, while the editor says this
William " composed many other poetical pieces which
are deservedly popular," he adds, " if he had left no
* Archdall's Lodge's Peerage, v. 3, p. 205.
t Antiqiiities, p. 163.
188 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
other than ' Cliona,' it would be sufficient to rescue
his name firom oblivion.*'*
The Four Masters record the death of Madadain
O'Heffeman, Chief of Clan-Cruain, in 1047, and an
engagement, in 1150, between Turlough O'Brien on
the one part, and the O'Carrols and O'Rourkes on
the other, wherein many of the latter party and the
son of 0"lfernan' were slain. They also make men-
tion of the Clan-Hiffernan at 1170. In 1543, ^neas
O'Hiffernan, who had been an Hospitaller and Pre-
ceptor of Any, in the County of Limerick, was pre-
sented to the See of Emly on the nomination of King
Henry the Eighth.f
CORNET CHARLES REDMOND.
The origin and lineage of this family are so largely
given in Sir Bernard Burke's * Landed Gentry,' that
reference to that work will best satisfy inquiry. On
Ortelius's map, the Sept is located in the Barony of
Forth, County of Wexford. This Cornet Charles
was a Burgess in King James's Charter to Enniscor-
thy. He was attainted in 1691 by the description
of Charles Redmond of the City of Dublin, Gent. ; as
were Alexander and Richard Redmond as of Dun-
ganstown, and John Redmond of Askenmuller, in the
County of Wexford. In the Southwell Collection of
• Hardiman^s Irish Minstrelsy, v, 2, pp. 25 & 125.
t Ware's Bishops, p. 499.
luttrell's horse.
189
State Manuscripts were " papers said to have been
found about prisoners taken by Colonel Wolseley,
discovering the design of the Papists' meeting at
Mullingar, and among them letters to Captain Red-
mond, whom Wolseley hanged^*
After the Revolution, some members of the family
are traceable in the French and Spanish services.
REGIMENTS OF HORSE.
HENRY LUTTRELL'S.
CapUMM.
CcmeU.
Quarter-Matters,
The Colonel.
Sir James Modare
'♦
Lieut-Col.
Major.
John Connor.
Bryan Kelly.
Thady Connor.
John Ash.
Hanrey Morris.
Edmnnd Power.
William Fanning.
Badmond Morris.
Lord Dnnsanj.
Gerard Etcts.
Ralph E^ers.
Thomas Carew.
Walter Lawless.
James Lawless.
Joseph Cripps.
Da^id Fanning.
John Oxhni^.
Thady Connor.
COLONEL HENRY LUTTRELL.
The estate of Luttrelstown, beautifully situated in
the vale of the Liffey, was, after the English Invasion,
♦ Thorpe's Catal. of Southwell MSS. p. 182.
190 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
granted by King John to Sir Geoffrey Luttrell.*
From him it took that name, and for centuries was
inherited by his descendants. In 1236, Robert Lut-
trell, then Treasurer of St. Patrick's Cathedral, was
sworn Lord Chancellor of Ireland. In 1534, Sir
Thomas Luttrell, styled of Luttrelstown, was ap-
pointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas ; and to
the exertions and cai^e of this wise Judge, posterity
has been indebted for the preservation of the public
records and rolls of Chancery, which he found piled
in a ruinous tower of Dublin Castle, at a considerable
distance from St. Patricks, where the Courts were
then kept. By an order of Council he effected their
removal to the Library of that Cathedral, where the
Clerk of the Hanaper was ordered " to provide
presses, chests, doors, locks, and all other necessaries,
as well in said Library as in the better portion of the
Tower, for their safe custody. f" In 1613, Thomas
Luttrell was one of the Representatives of the County
of Dublin in Parliament. Those of the name at-
tainted in 1642 were Robert Luttrell of Girstown,
and Oliver Luttrell of Tankardstown, County of
Meath.
The above Colonel Henry Luttrell was ancestor of
the Lords Carhampton, and younger brother of
Simon, hereafter mentioned. In King James's Parlia-
ment of Dublin he was one of the Representatives of
the County of Carlow. Graham, in his Derriana^
* D'Alton s Hist. Co. Dublin, p. 569.
t D' Alton s Hist. Drogheda, v. 2, p. 190.
luttrell's horse. 191
(p. 29), ranks him as Colonel of the Sixth Regiment
of Horse, as does the article in Somers' State Tracts
(v. xi., p. 398) ; but the variance arises from Colonel
Hugh Sutherland's Horse being there placed between
Sarsfield's and Abercom's, not as here ; the number
of the Horse Regiments is the same. A Spottiswode
Luttrell is, on a different list, recorded to have com-
manded, after the battle of the Boyne, an Indepen-
dent Troop.* Previous to that battle, when King
James had fallen back upon Ardee, he despatched
Sarsfield with this Henry Luttrell's Horse, Sir Neill
O'Neill's Dragoons, and Charles Moore's and O'Gara's
Infantry, to retard the advance of King William.
This Regiment was afterwards sent to relieve Sars-
field in Connaught, against whom his enemy was
advancing from Ulster. Colonel Henry Luttrell's
conduct on this occasion is much commended, and,
mainly by his exertions, Sarsfield was enabled to take
possession of Sligo, "the very key of Connaught on
that side." When the ' Young Ireland' party of that
day, in jealousy of Tyrconnel's policy, despatched the
deputation to St. Germains, Henry Luttrel was one
of those on the mission chiefly entrusted with their
complaints, as before-mentioned at ' Tyrconnel,' ante^
p. 54. He, in truth, " and the native Irish used all
exertions to undermine the power of Tyrconnel, and
denounce his adherents to public scorn." It was he,
tJiey said, that fled to Galway on the approach of
William to Limerick, and during that first siege sup-
* Singers Correspondence of Lord Clarendon, v. 2, p. 614.
192 KING James's irish army list.
plied only beans and oats to the garrison, while
wheat was abundant in the Commissariat. He was,
says O'Conor, represented as a coward, and was, in
fact, believed to be such by the war party. It was
with the hope of refuting these too popular opinions,
that Tyrconnel passed over to St. Germains, there to
urge his defence before James ; judiciously giving
out that he had that Monarch's orders to repair to
France, to give an account of aflfairs in Ireland.*
The result has been before alluded to.
The defeat at Aughrim, says Burke,f was popularly
attributed to Henry Luttrell's defection ; in corrobo-
ration of which, the Williamite Diary of the last siege
of Limerick, preserved in the ' Harleian Collections,'
(Vol. vii., p. 481), says, at the 18th August, 1691,
" We had an account this day that Henry Luttrell
had been lately seized at Limerick, by order of the
French Lieutenant-General, D'Usson, for having made
some proposals for a surrender of the place ; and that
he was sentenced by a Court Martial to be shot ;
upon which our General sent them word by a trum-
pet, that if they would put any man to death for
having a mind to come over to us, he would revenge
it on the Irish." He was in truth on the clearest
evidence found guilty by Court Martial, and sen-
tenced to remain in prison until King James's plea-
sure could be known ; but, on the intermediate
reduction of Limerick, having been released, he was
• O'Conors Military Memoirs, p. 122.
t Peerage, p. 1120.
luttkell's horse. 193
mainly instrumental in enlisting the Irish over to the
English interest* Whereupon he was put upon the
new Establishment for a yeariy pension of £500 ;
yet was he, together with a Thomas Luttrell, both
described of Luttrellstown, County of Dublin, out-
lawed in 1691 ; as were Robert Luttrell of Simons-
town, County of Kildare, and William Luttrell of
Dublin, Junior. Simon Luttrell and his wife were
likewise attainted ; but Colonel Henry Luttrell, hav-
ing obtained a custodiam grant to him of his brother's
lands, had in 1694 a patent of exemption from the
rent, except the quit rents which were payable thereout
under the Acts of Settlement and Explanation. A
letter of his to the Lord Lieutenant in 1699 was in
the Southwell Collection, written in reference to his
sister-in-law. Colonel Simon's lady, who had returned
into Ireland " by an old pass of Lord Romney ;" and
he therein begs that he may have permission ^Ho
make use of the outlawry against her, in case she
should give me trouble by an attorney. She is a
very intriguing woman, and it was thought, when
she went for France, she went on a very intriguing
message. I am sure I heard my Lord repent might-
ily the giving her a pass ; and I need not tell your
Lordship that there will be nothing left undone by
the Jacobites here to perplex me in this affair.^f In
1702, he was appointed a Major-General in the Dutch
army, with a Regiment, and nominated to conmiand
• O'Conor's Military Mem., p. 188.
t Thorpe's Catal. of Southwell MSS., p. 104.
194 KING JAMES'8 IRISH ARMY LIST.
on a military enterprise of importance ; but, on the
death of Bong William, he retired to his country
seat at Luttrelstown, where he thenceforth chiefly
resided,* until, in October, 1717, he was shot in his
sedan chair, while passing through the streets of
Dublin. He left two sons ; Richard, who died
abroad, and Simon, who succeeded his brother in
Luttrelstown, and was created Earl of Carhampton
in 1785. His only son, John, died in 1829, without
issue, when the title became extinct. O'Callaghan,
in reference to these descendants of Colonel Henry
Luttrel, says, " He was a bad man, the father of a
bad man, and the grandfather of a bad man."f Of
Henry himself O'Conor writes, "He was possessed of
great talents, and was one of the best officers in the
Irish army ; but recklessly bent on pushing himself
forward by the popularity of Sarsfield, and by raising
him to the chief command. He had served in
France with distinction ; but was so eager of perso-
nal advancement, that he would shrink as little from
in&my as from danger, to promote his fortunes."!
• Burke's Peerage, p. 1120.
t Excidium Macance, p. 397.
X O'Conors Military Memoirs, p. 121 ; and more fully
O'Callagban's Brigades, v. 1, p. 196, &c.
luttbell's horse. 195
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL SIR JAMES
MOCLARE.
He was outlawed in 1691, being described as "of the
City of Dublin, Knight." The family, which was
then and previously chiefly located in the County of
Tipperary, seems to have been connected with the
Luttrells, Edward Moclare being also in commission
as Major in Colonel Symon Luttrell's Regiment of
Dragoons. In Colonel Dudley Bagnall's Infantry,
John Moclare was a Captain and James Moclare an
Ensign.
CAPTAINS HARVEY AND REDMOND MORRIS.
This name was introduced to Ireland in the person
of Harvey de Monte Maurisco, who accompanied the
Earl of Pembroke (Strongbow) thither, and was by
him appointed Seneschal over the vast territory he
had acquired on his marriage with Eva, the heiress
of Dermot Mc Murrough. This Harvey was the early
founder of the noble Cistercian Religious House of
Dunbrody, which he filled with monks from Bildewas
in Shropshire; and in the monastery of the Holy
Trinity at Canterbury he closed his days. In 1335,
John Morice, Knight, was despatched to England by
the Irish Council on urgent business, and had a
Treasury order, 'as well for money expended on his
journey thithei:^ as for services rendered by him in
02
196 KING James's ikish army list.
Munster. In the following year, being Justiciary of
Ireland, he summoned a Parliament at Dublin, but,
although he was the Representative of the King, he
had not the confidence and did not command the co-
operation of the country. It was on this occasion
that the Earl of Desmond proved the extraordinary
influence he possessed over all classes of the Kingdom :
feeling indignant at Sir John Morice's proceedings in
relation to himself, he invited the Nobles and Prelates
to meet him at Kilkenny ; and there, while the
Justiciary was unable to procure a sufficient atten-
dance in Dublin, the Earl saw assembled at his in-
vitation the Prelates, Earls, Barons, and Commons of
Ireland, who joined him in a remarkable Remonstrance
to the King against the proceedings of Sir John and
his Irish ministry.*
In 1447, D. Redmond Morris, a native of Ireland,
ecclesiastically styled Cardinal de Castres, died at
Rome. It is said that, in his honor and to perpetuate
his Christian name in that province of the country
from which he was descended, the Morris fiunilies of
Castle-morres, Latragh, Knockagh and Rathlin, in the
Counties of Kilkenny and Tipperary, have constantly
preserved the ' Redmond ' in their lines.
The Act of Settlement contained a saving of the
rights of John * Morish ' as a Trustee in Wexford
lands, while the declaration of Royal gratitude there-
in, for services beyond the seas, includes the name of
Captain Neal Morris. A * Mr. Morris ' was on the
♦ Red Book of the Exch. in Ch. Reiaemb. Off.
luttrell's horse. 197
pension list of 1685, for £500 per annum.* In
1687, Edmund Morris was sheriff of the Queen's
County, which was represented in the Parliament of
Dublin by Edward Morris, while the above Harvey
Morris was one of the members for the borough of
Knocktopher, County of Kilkenny. Captain ^ Red-
mond ' Morris rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel
in this Regiment, as appears by the warrant for his
pardon, dated 28th June, 1701, wherein it is recited
that he ^^ had served in the Irish army as Lieutenant-
Colonel in Colonel Henry Luttrell's Horse ; that, on
the surrender of Limerick, he came over to our ser-
vice in said regiment, until it was broke ; that being
afterwards reduced to a low condition, he was neces-
sitated, contrary to his own inclination, to go into
France and enter into the French King^s service, in
order to a subsistence for himself and his £unily ;
that, being desirous to return into Ireland, which wss
his native country, he humbly prayed for a licence
to enable him so to do, which was allowed ; but being
advised that he cannot live there with security, with-
out a free pardon, he prayed for this also," and it was
thereby accordingly granted.f In 1703, a private
Act was passed to prevent the disinherison of Redmond
Morris, as was in two years after a ftirther Act, to
enable John Morris, an in&nt, son and heir of Red-
mond Morris, Esq. deceased, ^' to make a jointure on
any woman he shall marry, and for relief of the
* Singer's Gorrespondenoe of Lord Clarendon, y. 1, p. 658.
t Harris's MSS. vol. 10, p. 308.
198 KING JAMES'8 IKISH ARMY LIST.
younger children of said Redmond, and for amending
and explaining some clauses in the first Act." This
legislation originated in a petition of Lieutenant-
Colonel Redmond Morris, of 30th September, 1703,
in which he set forth that he was the eldest son of Sir
John Morres of Knockagh, County of Tipperary,
Baronet, a Roman Catholic ; who, by reason of the
Petitioner being a Protestant, threatened to disinherit
him, and he therefore prayed relief from the legisla-
ture to prevent his being so disinherited, and for a
maintenance for himself during his father's life.*
Captain Harvey Morris was a younger son of Sir
Redmond of Knockagh. He had previously pur-
chased the Castle and site of Derrylough in the
County of Kilkenny, near Knocktopher, which had
been forfeited by a member of the Comerford family,
and granted by Cromwell to one Matthew Westmore-
land, a Lieutenant in his army. The grandson of
this Harvey Morris was created Viscount Mount-
morris of Castle-morris. Edmund Morris was also
an officer in this service, but not on the present List.
He was killed at the battle of Aughrim, and his estate
was granted in 1696 by King William for services to
Richard Fitzpatrick, who was in 1715 elevated to the
Peerage by the title of Baron Gowran of Gowran, and
took his seat in Parliament in the November following.
The estate of this Edmund Morris was situated at
Grantstown in the Queen's County, off which dower
was claimed by Anne Morris as his widow, and por-
* Irish Commons Journal, v. 3, p. 24.
luttrell'8 horse. 199
tions by Mary and Anne, his daughters, but their
petitions were dismist ; while another part of his estate
was sold by the Commissioners in 1703 to Amyas
Bush of Kilfane. Amongst those outlawed at this
time was also Edward Morris, styled of Maryborough,
in the same County. '
CAPTAIN LORD DUNSANY (PLUNKETT.)
This name, of Danish origin, was, after centuries from
the time of its first establishment in Ireland, ennobled
in the person of the Earl of Fingal, from whom
branched the Barons of Dunsany and Earls of Louth.
Richard Plunkett had summons to Parliament by
writ in 1374, was afterwards Chief Justice of the
King's Bench, and in 1388 was appointed Lord Chan-
c^or. Few names have held higher place in the
judicial preferments than this, even to the illustrious
Chancellor, who died but a few years since. In 1461,
Thomas Plunkett was appointed Chief Justice of the
King's Bench ; Alexander Plunkett, Lord ChanceUor
in 1492 ; and in 1559, John Plunkett of Dunsoghly,
Knight, was Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench.
The Act of attainder of the Earl of Tyrone in 16,12
included in its penalties Christopher Plunkett, late
of Dungannon. At the Assembly of 1641, on Crofly
Hill, Lords Louth and Dunsany were present. The
Attainders of the following year included of this
name, the Earl of Fingal, James and George Plun-
200 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
kett of Killeen, Michael Plunkett of Feltown, Nicholas
of Killallon and Balrath, Robert of Athboy, merchant;
Christopher of Girly, Thomas of Clonecatt, Alexander
of Jackstown, Patrick and Henry of Grange, Richard
of Dunshaughlin, John of Castlearron, Robert of
Rathmore, and Henry of Iskeroon, all in the County
of Meath ; John Plunkett of Durre, clerk ; 'Garrald'
Plunkett of Gardoge, County of Kildare, and Robert
Plunkett of the Grange of Portmamock, County of
Dublin. Amongst the Confederate Catholics who as-
sembled at Kilkenny in 1646, Christopher Plunkett,
Earl of Fingal, and Oliver Plunkett, Baron of Louth^
were of the Peers ; while in the Commons sat Nicho-
las Plunkett of Balrath. Cromwell's Act of 1652, "for
settling Ireland,'' excepted from pardon for life and
estate the aforesaid Lords Fingal and Dunsany, and
Nicholas Plunkett. Tiie Act of Settlement, in the
re-acting clause, declaratory of Royal gratitude,
includes the names of both these Lords, while it
restored Lord Dunsany to his estates ; Sir Walter
Plunkett to his ; Sir Nicholas Plunkett to two thirds
of his ; it provided that Mabel, Countess Dowager of
Fingal, should have lands set out to her to the yearly
value of her jointure, and the civil establishment was
afterwards charged with a pension of £100 per annum
for the Lord Dunsany.
In 1662, (2nd Dec.) died William Plunkett of
Portmarnock, ' son of Luke, anciently of Dublin,' and
was buried at St. Audoen's in Dublin. He had mar-
ried Anne, daughter of Sir Theodore Duff of that city,
luttrell's horse. 201
and had issue by her a son, Luke, living at that
time.* In 1681, Oliver Plunkett, then Roman
Catholic Primate of Ireland, was hanged at Tyburn,
denying to the last various charges of treason that
had been alleged against him.f Besides the above
Captain Lord Dunsany, there appear upon this List,
in Colonel Sarsfield's Horse, James Plunkett a
Quarter-Master ; in Lord Dongan's Dragoons, Oliver
Plunkett a Captain; in the King's own Infantry,
Walter Plunkett a Lieutenant, and John Plunkett an
Ensign ; in Fitz^ames's, Garrett Plunkett a Lieu-
tenant ; in Lord Louth's, Henry Plunkett was a
Lieutenant, as was Greorge Plunkett in Sir Walter
Creagh's, and Walter in Colonel John Hamilton's.
The two latter having been promoted to Captain-
cies, one of them may be identical, with the Captain
Plunkett related in contemporaneous reports as having
been killed at the siege of Deny, and the other
with a second Captain there wounded*. Lord Louth
was himself at the siege. A Captain Plunkett is also
noted as of Lord Gormanstown's Regiment at the
siege of Limerick.J
The Earl of Fingal, and Lords Dunsany and
Louth, sat in the Parliament of Dublin, and were
accordingly attainted in 1691, as were Christopher
Plunkett of Lagore and Killeen, Richard Plunkett
of Rathregan, Gerald of Curraghstown, Thomas of
* Funeral Entry in Berm. Tor. f Hawdon Papers, p. 244
} O'Callaghan's Excid. Mac. p. 374.
202 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
Carrick, William and Francis of Tullaghmoge, Oliver
of Onganstown and Oldcastle, Nicholas of Eilleen,
Edward of Gibbonstown, Angel Plunkett of Ratiimore,
Thomas of Dirpatrick and Newcastle, Alexander of
Pichelstown, Edward of Girly, John and Richard of
Croskeele, Patrick of Leytrim and Tankardrath,
Thomas of Tallonstown, and Peter of Enockveagb,
all in the County of Meath, Edward Plunkett of
Kilrush, County of Westmeath ; George and William
Plunkett of Portmamock, County of Dublin (the
latter had been personally engaged at th^ battle of
the Boyne) ; Matthew Plunkett of the City of Dublin,
Oliver Plunkett, son of Matthew Lord Baron Louth,
Thomas Plunkett, second son of said Lord, Patrick
Plunkett of Castlelumney, Simon and Richard of
Priorstown, Randall of GreenhiU, Thomas of Ard-
keenagh, and Patrick and John of Castleplunkett,
County of Roscommon. The Earl of Fingal was
attainted erroneously by the name of Lucas, his real
Christian name being Peter, and the outlawry was
consequently reversed in 1697. The Lord Dunsany
was included in the Articles of Limerick, whereby
his estates were also protected for him ; " neglecting,
however, the forms necessary to re-establish himself
in tJie peerage," neither his Lordship nor his im-
mediate descendants had a seat in the House of
Lords.*
At the Court of Claims, Margaret Plunkett claimed
a child's portion oflf the County of Roscommon lands
* Burke's Landed Gentry, p. 342.
luttrell'8 horse. 203
of Patrick Plunkett of Castleplimket, but her
petition was dismist for non-prosecution. Thomas
Plunkett, and Catherine his wife, claimed an estate
for life to Thomas, and a jointure to Catherine on the
lands of Portmamock and Carrickhill, forfeited by
the afore said William, son and heir of Luke Plunkett ;
their claims were also dismist as being already before
Parliament ; while George Plunkett, and Johanna
his wife, who had been the widow of said Luke,
claimed and were allowed the benefit of her jointure
thereoff.*
At the battle of Lauffield in 1747, Watt Plunkett
of Clare's Brigade was wounded.f
CAPTAIN WALTER LAWLESS.
So early as the year 1285, Thomas 'Laghles' ap-
pears oh Irish record as Constable of Connaught. In
1312, Richard Lawless was Mayor of Dublin, and in
1318, Hugh Lawless and others, his adherents, were
commissioned to parley with the Irishry of the south-
eastern parts of the Pale, the OTooles, O'Bymes,
and MacMurroughs.J In 1354, Stephen 'Lawless'
succeeded to the See of Limerick; and in 1431,
anotJier Stephen Lawless was the mitred Abbot of the
• D' Alton 8 County of Dublin, p. 179.
t Grent. Mag. ad ann. p. 377.
t Rot. Pat., 13 Edi*. II. in Cane. Hib.
204 KING JAMES'S IRISH. ARMY LIST.
splendid religious House of the Blessed Virgin at
Dublin.
In 1550, died Walter Lawless, a burgess of Kil-
kenny, and then the holder of Talbot's-Inch, in that
County, under the See of Ossory. His son and heir
was Richard, whose heir was, acccording to family
respect, another Walter. This last was found to have
been, during his life-time, seized of the manor of Cal-
lan, with certain chief rents and customs, "a certain
yearly custom of 'plows,' viz., one plow for one day
every season within the town of Callan ; the custom
of 'rjrping' hooks every harvest yearly upon the bur-
gesses and inhabitants of said town, (excepting the
chief brethren or 'Cunsell' of Callan,) a custom of
ale, &c., out of every ale 'brued' to be sold in the
town aforesaid, (fee." He also claimed the Castles of
Callan, Killmacoliver, Tullaghmayne, and Ballydon-
nell, all in said County, and was seized of premises in
Gowran, under the Earl of Ormond, with the afore-
said lands under the See of Ossory. This Walter died
in 1627, leaving Richard Lawless his son and heir,
then of full age but unmarried. He however soon
afterwards married Margaret Den of the old family of
Grenan, and their issue was the above Captain Wal-
ter. He inherited Talbot's-Inch and other estates in
Kilkenny, of which county he was at one time
Sheriff; and, manying Anne, sister of James Bryan
of Jenkinstown, had by her two sons, Richard and
Patrick, who with their father were engaged in this
service. A James Lawless was also a Lieutenant in
luttrell's horse. 205
this Regiment ; he was Town Clerk, prothonotary,
and Clerk of the Crown and Peace for Kilkenny ;
while an Edward Lawless was an Ensign in Sir
Maurice Eustace's Infantry.
The above Patrick Lawless, Captain Walter's son,
was taken prisoner at Aughrim;* he was then a
Major. Leaving this country on the Revolution, he
took refiige in Spain, where in the middle of the last
century he held high rank in the army of his Catholic
Majesty, and was Governor of Majorca and Minorca.f
In the Inquisition of 1691 on his attainder, he was
described as of Colemanstown in the County of Dub-
lin ; his father, Walter, being expressly named as of
Talbot's-Inch and Brownstown, as were his other sons
Richard and John. There were also then attainted
Thomas and Dominick Lawless of Dublin, and James
Fitz-Adam Lawless of Kilkenny City.
The Earl of Clarendon, while Viceroy of Ireland,
makes mention in 1686 of a Major Lawless, who had
been quartered at Kinsale, holding that rank in
Colonel Macarty's Regiment ; he died in this year at
Cork, whereby a pension of £200 per annum reverted
to the Crown. J At the Court of Claims in 1700,
those preferred, as affecting the estate of the above
Captain Walter, were Anne's as his widow for her
jointure — allowed ; and one of Thomas Lawless for
the amount of a bond debt charged on same and on
* Story's Impartial History, part 2, p. 187.
t De Burgo's ffib. Dom., p. 894.
X Singer's Correspondence of Clarendon, v. 2, pp. 351-5-8.
206 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
the inheritance of Richard his son. A portion of these
estates was sold in 1703 to the Hollow Swords
Blades' Company ; the other portions, within the Liber-
ties of Kilkenny, to GriflSth Drisdale and Amyas
Bush of Kilfane, while the fee of Talbot's-Inch re-
verted to the See of Ossory. In the Cathedral of
Kilkenny are monuments to many members of this
family.
LIEUTENANT GERALD EVERS.
This family name is found at a very early period
after the Invasion connected with Meath. A close
Roll of 1373 purports to provide for expenses of
Robert ' de Evere,' a clerk of the Exchequer in Ire-
land, in his journey to England on the business of the
Bishop of Meath, who was then Treasurer of Ireland.
In 1386, the Marquis of Dublin committed to Robert
Evere (probably the same individual,) the custody of
the Mills of Trim, Ardmulchan, &c., which, by reason
of the death of Edward de Mortimer and the minority
of his heir, Roger, were then in the seisin of the
Crown.* In 1498, Robert Evers, an Englishman,
was Prior of the great mitred Abbey of Kilmain-
ham.f In 1631, Thomas Evers, Mayor of Dublin,
married Edith Mortimer, of another Meath family.
♦ Rot. Pat. 10 Ric. 2, in Cane. Hib.
t D'Alton's Co. Dub., p. 622.
LUTTRELL^S HORSE. 207
He died in the following year, and was buried in St.
John's Church, Dublin.
The Attainders of 1642 include the names of Alex-
ander and James Evers of Eatain ; Patrick of Bellar-
din, and Edward of Noshingstown, all in the County
of Meath. Those of 1691 were of the above Gerald
Evers, described as of Moyrath, County of Meath,
Randolf alias Ralph Evers of Tokeroane, do. (a Cor-
net in this Company,) Matthew Evers of Galmoys-
town, County of Westmeath, Charles Evers of Ballin-
ralline, Queen's County ; and Christopher Evers of
Bellardin, aforesaid. This latter estate, comprising
about 300 acres, was purchased in 1703, with other
possessions, by John Asgill of Dublin. Cicely Darcy,
otherwise Evers, claimed an estate for life thereon,
but her right was not admitted. Gerald Evers
claimed a remainder in tail therein, and his petition
was also dismist ; while, at the same Court, Mary
Evers, as Relict and Administratrix of William
Evers, deceased, and Matthew Evers, son and heir of
said William, claimed and were allowed sundry
interests in County of Westmeath lands, forfeited by
Sir John Nugent.
CORNET JOSEPH CRIPPS.
*Ceipps' does not occur elsewhere on this Army List,
but this oflScer in his attainder of 1691, is described
as 'of Killemey, County of Kilkenny, Gentleman.'
208 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
The name b now traceable only in the County of
Limerick, in connection with that of Villiers.
QUARTER-MASTER THOMAS CAREW.
Neither does 'Carew' occur elsewhere upon this List,
or at all in the Attainders of 1641 or 1691, nor does
he appear of kindred with the noble family of CasUe-
borough, or with that of Ballinamona.
At the close of the reign of King John, Raymond
'de Karreu' granted the Church of 'Stacklorgan,'
with the advowson and the land around it, as an en-
dowment to Christ Church, Dublin ; and about the
same time he gave to the noble monastery of St
Thomas-a-Becket in said city, a burgage in Dungar-
van, as also the Church of St. Colman of Cork, and
those of 'Matre,' Caroulton, and Tullaghrathen, with
all their appurtenances, and the whole tithes and eccle-
siastical dues thereto appertaining.* In one of the
Grenealogical Manuscripts of Trinity College, Dublin,
(F 3, 27), is a pedigree of the Carews of Garry vroe,
for twelve generations ; but it closes with Robert
Carew of Garryvroe, who died in 1633, and the
Christian name of Thomas does not appear on the
whole line. It may be mentioned from Sir Richard
Cox, that in 1575, Sir Henry Sydney, while Lord
Deputy of Ireland, attended, at Waterford, the burial
of Sir Peter Carew, "whose ancestors had been Mar-
• Kings MSS., p. 180.
SUTHERLAND'S HORSE.
209
quises of Cork, and claimed a mighty estate, compris-
ing the greater part of ancient Desmond in the
Counties of Cork, Waterford and Kerry,*' and that
claim the Mac Cartys, Barrys, and many other chiefs
of Munster offered to recognize, "in opposition to the
Earls of Desmond ; and proposed that, if Sir Peter
would come and reside amongst them, they would ad-
vance him three thousand kine, with sheep, hogs, and
corn, and annually pay him all reasonable demands;
but his death put an end to all these speculations."
REGIMENTS OF HORSE.
HUGH SUTHERLAND'S.
Captaing. Lieutenants. Comet*.
Colonel
Lord Brittaa.
Edward Prendergast, Derraott McAaliffe. John Burke.
Lieut. -Col.
William Cox,
Major.
Comeliua Callaghan. Godfrey CoDTngham. William Verdon.
Drury Wray. Jamea McDonnell John Prendergast.
James Bryan. Matthew Roth. Francis Bryan.
Toby Matthews.
William Matthews.
Edmund Walsh.
John Ryan.
Edward Danter.
Quarter- 3 ffistert.
John Hynes.
Jsmes Butler.
Ryan.
Maguire.
Thomas Matthews
John Walsh.
210 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
COLONEL HUGH SUTHERLAND.
Early in this Campaign he was constituted a Briga-
dier, and, while the siege of Deny was pending, was
despatched with two Regiments of Infantry, one of
Dragoons, and two troops of Horse, to * straiten '
Enniskillen on the side of Belturbet ; while Colonel
Sarsfield, with whom he was to correspond, was
stationed within twelve miles of that town with three
troops of Horse, one of Dragoons, and three battalions
of Foot. On Sutherland's arrival for this object at
Belturbet, he received an order from Marshal Rosen,
then at Derry, to proceed to Omagh, to protect the
Irish blockading army in that direction.* Accord-
ingly, on the fifth of July, Berwick wrote to Lieu-
tenant-General Hamilton, the Irish Commander at
the camp before that City, " I marched yesterday-
morning from Newtown-Stewart, and, joining Colonel
Sutherland at ' Omey,' I marched hither my advanced
guard, cut ofi* several of their sentries, and pushed a
great many of the Rebels' party with such vigour as
they beat with thirty Dragoons three Troops of
Horse of theirs, which were drawn up at a distance
fipom us."f Colonel Sutherland was engaged at the
Boyne, and, though he was wounded, his Regiment
suffered little, " having to do only with the enemy's
horse, which he soon repulsed."!
♦ O'Callaghan's Green Book, p. 267.
t Manuscripts T.C.D., E 2, 19.
J Clarke's James II. vol. 2, p. 400.
SUTHERLAND'S HORSE. 211
LIEUTENANT. COLONEL EDWARD
PRENDERGAST.
This name came into Ireland with Earl * Strongbow/
who induced Maurice de Prendergast to accompany
him in the Invasion, and made over to him a tract of
country, called Femegenelan, to hold by the service
of ten Knights.* In 1207, King John, having found
the Barons of Leinster and Meath opposed to giving
effect to the Royal Writs of Right, &c. sent mandates
to Walter, Hugh, and Robert de Lacy, Lords of
Meath and Ulster ; to Richard de Tuite, Philip de
Prendergast, &c. wherein he expressed surprise " that
they should attempt establishing a new form of trial
without his assent, or seek his Justiciary to deliver
to them, without his orders, what had been taken at
the hands of the Crown by royal precept ; and he
commanded them not to ' default ' towards him, their
Lord, and declared with God's and his. rights he will
acquire, according to time and place.^'t I^ 1229,
King Henry summoned Gerald de Prendergast, as
one of the * Fideles ' of Ireland, to a military muster
at Portsmouth for service in Brittany ; and again, in
1244, for the Scottish war. This Gerald, being
Patron of the Abbey of Canons Regular at Ennis-
corthy, made a grant thereof to be a cell to the noble
House of St. Thomas-a-Becket in Dublin.J A List
• Ware's Ant., V. 1, p. 191.
t Rot. Pat. Tut. Lond. 8 Jac. 1.
X Kings MSS. Dub. Soc., pp. 178-9.
P 2
212 KING James's irisu army list.
of the Barous and Knights of Richard de Burgo's
Palatinate in Connaught, in 1242, names this Gerald
de Prendergast as one.* In 1278, Geoffrey de
Prendergast sued Paganus de Hinteberg for the
estate of his mother Alienora, in the County of Limer-
ick, by wager of battle. It was fought accordingly with
all legal formalities of the day, and the appellant
gained the battle and the lands. In 1326, Geoffrey
de Prendergast was one of the Commissioners of
Array for the County of Kilkenny. In 1414, Robert
Prendergast was Abbot of the mitred House of the
Blessed Virgin of Dublin ; and, in the Parliament of
1585, Edward Prendergast was one of the Repre-
sentatives for the County of the Crosses of Tipperary.
In a MS. Volume of the Royal Dublin Society's Col-
lection, entitled ' Collectanea de Rebus Hibemicisj
occurs (at page 384) a transcript of an extraordinary
deed, by which the Lady Eleanor Butler, being a
co-heiress to the title of Baron of Caliir, affected to
convey same to Sir Thomas Prendergast, about the
time of Charles the First.
Of the Confederate Catholics at Kilkenny, in
1646, was James Prendergast of Tullivellan ; and
the Royal declaration of gratitude, contained in the
Act of Settlement, includes Ensign John Prender-
gast, the same individual possibly who was a Comet
in this Regiment. This name is especially distin-
guished in Colonel Dudley Bagnall's Infantry, where
Geoffrey Prendergast was a Captain, Walter and
♦ MS. in Trin. Coll. Lib., Dublin.
SUTHERLAND'S HORSE. 213
Robert Prendergast, Lieutenants, and James Prender-
gast an Ensign. The latter James was indicted in
1691, by the description of Harristown, County of
Kilkenny ; as was another James as of Butlerstown,
County of Wexford. Thomas Prendergast of Bally-
femogue, and Nicholas Prendergast of Enniscorthy,
were then likewise attainted, and a Geoffry Prender-
gast, at this time, forfeited estates in Galway and
Mayo.
After the Revolution, this Lieutenant-Colonel Ed-
ward passed into France, and was there appointed to
the same rank in Colonel Sheldon's Brigade.
At the battle of Lauffield, in 1747, Dennis Prender-
gast, a Lieutenant in Lally's Brigade, was wounded.*
MAJOR WILLIAM COX.
This name does not otherwise appear in the Army
List or attainders, nor has any notice, that could
identify him or his family, been discovered. The
most remarkable individual of the name at this period
was of the Williamite politics, Richard Cox of Wilt-
shire descent ; who, in September, 1690, was appoint-
ed a Justice of the Irish Common Pleas, vice Justice
Denis Daly, hereafter alluded to. He was knighted
in the following year, promoted to the Chief Justice-
ship in 1701, and in 1703, appointed Lord High
* Gent. Mag., ad ann., p. 377.
214 KING James's irish army list.
Chancellor of Ireland, from which he vfBs preferred
to be Chief Justice of the King's Bench in 1711.
The manuscript Diary of Primate Narcissus Marsh,
(preserved in the public Library in Dublin which
l)ears his name,) contains at the 26th of April, 1693,
an interesting notice of Judge Cox : — " This evening,
at six of the clock, we met at the Provost's lodgings
in Trinity College, Dublin, in order to the renewal of
our philosophical meeting, where Sir Richard Cox,
one of the Justices of ' the King's Bench,' read a
geographical Description of the City and County of
Derry, and of the County of Antrim, being part of
an entire Geographical Description of the whole King-
dam of Ireland, that is designed to be perfected by
him ; wherein also will be contained a Natural
History of Ireland, containing the most remarkable
things to l>e found that are the product of nature."
This work, however, never was printed, though others
from his pen have been. In October, 1706, Sir
Richard was created a Baronet, and died in 1733, of
apoplexy, leaving issue. Ware, in his ' Writers of
Ireland,' gives forty-four pages illustrative of the life
and times of this Sir Richard Cox.
CAPTAIN DRURY WRAY.
Neither does this name appear elsewhere upon the
present 'List.' The family was originally seated
within the Bishopric of Durham, and subseciuently
SUTHERLAND'S HORSE. 215
possessed estates in Riclimondshire, County of York.
From it descended Sir Christopher Wray, Knight,
who was a member of all the Parliaments of Queen
Mary's reign, and, in that of Elizabeth, was Speaker of
the House of Commons. He was ultimately consti-
tuted Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, in
which high oflSce he died, in 1592. His son, Sir
William Wray, was created a Baronet ; and the above
Captain Drury Wray, his descendant and heir male,
was the sixth in the succession. He was so attainted
in 1691, and his estates in the County of Limerick
were consequently sold by the Commissioners of the
Forfeitures, partly to John Berry of Ballinacargy,
in said County, and partly to the Hollow Swords
Blades' Company ; while the Rectories and Rec-
torial tithes which he possessed therein, were, accord-
ing to the policy of the Settlement, granted to the
See of Limerick for the augmentation of vicarages.
At the Court of Claims, Major Christopher Wray,
the eldest son of Sir Drury, claimed and was allowed
a reversion in fee, after his father^s decease, in various
lands in Limerick, and also in others in Cork. He
preferred his claim as by descent, being the eldest
son and heir to Anne Casey his mother : he also
claimed and was allowed an annuity off said lands.
Major Christopher offers one of many instances of
the sad domestic severance which this campaign
effected, fighting as he did at the Boyne for King
William. He afterwards served in the wars of Flanders,
Spain, and Portugal, as Lieutenant-Colonel in Colonel
216 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
Farrington's Regiment ; and eminendy distinguished
himself at the attack of Ostend .♦ His father, Sir
Drury, dying in 1710, he became the seventh
Baronet.
CAPTAIN TOBY MATTHEW.
This noble family is located in Ortelins's map in the
Barony of Eliogurty, County of Tippeniry. On Irish
law records the name appears from early in the com-
mencement of the fourteenth century ; in the fifteenth,
King Henry the Fourth committed to Thomas Mat-
thew, of the County of Meath, the custody of various
lands therein, and in Drogheda.f
The attainders of 1642 have, of this family, only
David Matthew of Castlemore, County of Cork. In
the Assembly of Confederate Catholics, Emir ' Mat-
thews' sat amongst the Spiritual Peers as Bishop of
Clogher. — In King James's Charter to Cashel, William
Matthew was a Burgess, as was James Matthew in
that to Carlingford, (he was a Lieutenant in Galmoy's
Horse,) and Francis Matthew in that to Ardee.
In 1686, the Earl of Clarendon, Lord Lieutenant,
visited the noble establishment of Captain Matthew,
at Thomastown, County of Tipperary. He seems to
have been the above named oflScer, and the lineal de-
♦ Burke's Landed Gentry, Sup. p. 246-7.
t Rot. Pat, 4 Hen. IV. in Cane. Hib.
SUTHERLAND'S HORSE. 217
scendant of David Matthew, the great Standard
Bearer of Edward the Fourth, whose monument is
still to be seen in the Cathedral of Landaff, and
whose issue were Lords of Raydor in Glamorganshire,
as also of Landaff. "I came hither," writes Lord
Clarendon, "last night, where I have been most
kindly used. It is a very fine place and the most
improved of any situation I have ever seen since I
came into this kingdom ; especially considering that
it is but sixteen years since he first sat down there,
when there was no house upon it.*^ His estate
Lord Clarendon styles, "of the new interest," thus
distinguishing it from those of the old native Septs.
More extended details of the singular hospitality
lavished at Thomastown by his heir in the following
century, when it became a hotel for all who chose to
visit it, where each guest might have a separate room
and meals ; and a distinct department, called a tavern,
was appropriated for the use of the less temperate ; are
given in the biography of Dean Swift, who, during
the early part of his residence in Ireland, was a visitor
there.
A Colonel Matthew of the Irish forces was taken
prisoner at Aughrim,f and, amongst those outlawed
in 1691, was Toby or Theobald Matthew, styled of
Thomastown, County of Tipperary, Esq. on whose
estate the right of Catherine Matthew, his widow, for
a leasehold interest, preferred on behalf of herself, and
• Singer's Correspondence of Clarendon, v. 2, p. 6.
t Bawdon Correspondence, p. 351.
218 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
her children, Theobald, Mary, Frances, Catherine and
Neville Matthew, was allowed by the Commissioners
at the Court of Claims. Others of this name then
outlawed were William Matthew, also described as of
Thomastown, Gent. ; James Matthew of Carlingford,
above mentioned ; Patrick and Sylvester Matthew of
Dunbin, Blackall-Andrew Matthew of Melleshant
[Mellefont,] clerk ; James Matthew of Charlestown,
County of Louth ; and George Matthew of Carlow ;
while Patrick and Sylvester forfeited lands in the
Barony of Cremorne, County of Monaghan, which
were sold by the Commissioners of the forfeited
estates to William Fortescue of the County of Louth.
LIEUTENANT GODFREY CONYNGHAM.
This name does not appear elsewhere on the Army
List, nor at all on the Attainders ; while a doubt of
this officer's adherence to King James is raised by the
fact, that at the Court of Claims in 1703, a 'Lieute-
nant Godfrey Conyngham' claimed and was allowed
sundry leasehold interests affecting lands in the
County of Cork, forfeited by Donogh, Earl of Clan-
carty. On this occasion also, a James, son of Andrew
Conyngham, petitioned for premises in Strabane,
while Josias 'Cunningham' claimed and was allowed
a freehold in the County of Antrim. Under the
latter spelling of this surname, it may be noticed that
SUTHERLAND'S HORSE. 219
a Colonel 'Cuningham' is stated to have fought for
King William at the battle of Aughrim.*
CORNET WILLIAM VERDON.
The subordinate rank of this officer here, evinces how
much this once illustrious family had then declined
from its early and influential character. Previous to
the Invasion of Ireland by Henry the Second, the
chivalrous family of De Verdon was settled at Alton,
where is now the splendid seat of the Earl of Shrews-
bury. From thence, in 1184, Bertram Verdon ac-
companied Prince John to Ireland, and was appointed
Seneschal of the Pale, with a grant of the Barony of
Dundalk, the Lordship of Clonmore, and other
estates in the County of Louth. In his time the
Borough of Dundalk was incorporated, and there he
founded a Priory for the order of Cross-bearers.
Nicholas, his son and heir, succeeded to these estates,
and died, leaving issue only a daughter, who married
Theobald le Botiller. Their son, John de Verdon,
assumed the family name of his mother, and he it was
who founded, in the time of Henry the Third, the
Gray Friary at Dundalk. His son, Theobald de
Verdon, was present at the Parliament of Westmin-
ster in 1275, where he gave the important consent,
that the same customs should be payable upon wool,
* Rawdon Papers, p. 857.
220 KING James's irish army list.
wool-fells, and hides shipped from the ix)rts of his
Liberties in Ireland, in the same manner as had been
granted by the Archbishops, &c., of England upon
wool, woolfells, &c., exported therefrom. In two years
after and subsequently, he was engaged in those expedi-
tions against Wales, which extinguished the struggles
of that country for independence. In 1288, he was
besieged in the Castle of Athlone, by Richard de
Biirgo, the 'Red' Earl of Ulster, who then pretended
title to the Lordship of Meath. He had frequent mili-
tary summonses to King Edward's wars from that
period, as one of the 'Fideles' of Ireland. In 1299,
he was called on, as a Baron, to do service against
the Scots, as was his son Theobald, the younger, in the
same year, ' by reason of his father's declining health.'
In 1310, this younger Theobald succeeded to the
estates and honors of his father, then deceased. In
three years after, he was appointed Lord Justice of
Ireland, and died in 1314, leaving only female issue,
"who," as Baron Finglas remarks in his Breviate,
"being married to noblemen who dwelled still in Eng-
land, and took such profits as they could get for a
while, and sent small defence for their lands in Ire-
land ; so as, within few years after, all their portions
were lost except certain manors within the English
Pale, which Thomas, Baron of Slane, and Sir Robert
Hollywood, Sir John Cruise, and Sir John Bellew
purchased in King Richard the Second's time ; and
this hath been the decay of half of Meath, which did
not obey the King's laws this hundred years and
SUTHERLAND'S HORSE. 221
more." The name of De Verdon continued however
to be represented in Louth by the male descendants
of other sons of the founder. At the Parliament of
York, in 1319, the King granted to Nicholas de Ver-
don, (who was one of the next heirs male of John,
who first, as before mentioned, assumed the name,)
the manor of Mandevilleston, County of Louth ;
which had come to the Crown by the surrender of
Ralph Pipard. In 1335, Milo de Verdon, another of
those male descendants, received a Royal Mandate to
attend John D'Arcy, the Justiciary, with arms and
horses in his expedition for the King's aid against
Scotland.* In 1374, Patrick Verdon had summons
to Parliament by writ, and in the same year, on the
occasion of the memorable Parliament of Westmin-
ster, to which Edward the Third required the attend-
ance of a certain number of the Representatives of
Irish interests, Richard de Verdon and Roger Gemon
were chosen as members for the ancient borough of
Drogheda.f
The above notices have been extracted from ' CoU
lections for a History of Dundalk^ which the
compiler of these 'Illustrations' had drawn up some
years since, (never published) ; but to extend this
article by the many other available annals of this
great name would not be allowable ; here, therefore,
it must suflSce to add, that in 1624 Christopher Ver-
don died, seised in fee by a long ancestral line of suc-
• D' Alton's Hist. Drogheda, v. 2, p. 84.
t Idem, V. 1, p. 244.
222 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
cession, of the Castle and manor of Clonmore, with
mills, lands, &c., and of chiefries of the aforesaid
manor of Mandevillstown ; leaving John Verdon, his
eldest son and heir, then 22 years of age and married,
and two other sons, Patrick and Robert. This John
was the only one of the name attainted in 1642 ; and
the ruins of the Castle which he and his ancestors
had theretofore held at Clonmore, are still traceable.
His namesake and descendant, John Verdon, (titu-
larly) styled of Clonmore, was attainted in 1691,
while the name of this William, who must have been
of the family, does not appear in the Outlawries, nor
does any other Verdon on this Army List.
CORNET EDWARD DANTER.
There is no other of this name on the List nor any
in the Outlawries.
QUARTER-MASTER JOHN HYNES.
Amongst the Confederate Catholics at Kilkenny in
1646, was Thomas ' Heynes of Feathard,' but the
name does not otherwise appear on this List, nor at
all in the Outlawries.
PARKER'S HORSE.
223
REGIMENTS OF HORSE.
JOHxN PARKER'S.
Cagplaku,
Limtenantt,
Comeit.
Qtiarler.Mattert.
The Oolonel. Thomas Greene.
Fnmcis Giffiurd, Bohert Lowich.
Lieut. -Colonel.
John Methmm,
Major.
Robert Nugent. Isidore Delagarde.
James Doddington. George Bamfield.
Thomas Eceleston. Robert Chemock.
Walter Hastings. George Oldfield.
James Hobb. Charles Skelton.
Edward Weddering-
ton.
Edward Halj. Edward Conforth.
Thomas Smallbone. Joseph Acton.
John Hnis.
Philemon MacCartie.
Cormick 0*Sallivan.
Michael Stritch.
Thomas Selbj.
COLONEL JOHN PARKER.
This name is of Irish record from the time of Richard
the Second. In 1403, Geoffrey Parker was consti-
tuted Mayor of the Staple in Dublin. Immediately
after, a John Parker filled the office of Grand Sergeant
of the County of Kildare.*
In 1552, John Parker was appointed Master of the
Rolls in Ireland ; and he was in 1561, an Ecclesiasti-
cal Commissioner. From him descended his name-
sake, the above Colonel.f When, on the* 26th of
Bolls in Chancery.
t Graham's Derriana, p. 31.
224 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
August, 1689, King James resolved on going to meet
the recently landed Schomberg, he took with him to
Drogheda a hundred of his own Horse Guards, with
two hundred of Parker's Horse, for the object of being
nearer to the enemy, where he might better observe
their motions*. This Regiment sustained especial
loss at the Battle of the Boyne, where several of its
officers fell, and the Colonel was himself wounded.
His Lieutenant-Colonel (then Greene), and his Major
James Doddington, (Captain on this list) and many
other officers were also killed ; " of the two squadrons
of that Regiment, there came off only about thirty
sound men."! It and Tyrconnel's suffered most on
that critical day. In Clarke's Correspond-
ence, preserved in the manuscripts of Trinity College,
is a letterj written by Robert Southwell to George
Clarke, Secretary of War, in which he recommends
the bearer. Lieutenant Cleere, as " a person of prin-
cipal consideration in the town of Clonmel, and ex-
tremely zealous to promote His Majesty's service
throughout the whole County. He lies under some
hardships, which are not to be suffered towards such
a person." An endorsement on the letter states that
" said Cleere had taken several horses and brought in
divers persons, and that he desires the horses he
took from Colonel Parker's Troopers :" the prayer
was granted.
On the attainders of 1642, is the name of Edward
♦ Clarke's James II. vol. 2, p. 373. t Wem, p. 400.
} Clarke's Corresp. MSS., v. 1, Letter 74.
PARKER'S HORSE. 225
Parker described as of Templeogue, County of Dublin;
on those of 1691, is this Parker, styled of the City of
Dublin, Esq. While, in the claims preferred in
1703, a John Parker made a remarkable one for
£5,000, which he alleged to be due to him, on foot of
a mortgage of lands and rectories in the County of
Kildare, forfeited by the Earl of Tyrconnel ; but his
claim was disallowed as false, and he was adjudged
to pay £10,000. The name does not otherwise
appear upon the Army List.
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL THOMAS GIFFORD.
•
This name does not occur here again, and Colonel
Thomas appears to have early retired from the ser-
vice ; as at the Boyne the Lieutenant-Colonel of this
Regiment was Greene, who was killed there. The
name is of high antiquity in Ireland, and to the
memorable parliament of Westminster in 1376, the
Clergy of the Diocese of Cashel sent John ' Geffard '
to be their Representative. In that of 1560, Henry
* Geaflford ' was one of the Representatives of the
Borough of Dungarvan. By the Act of Settlement
in 1662, arrears of pay due to Sir Thomas Giflford,
Baronet, then deceased, were directed to be paid to
his relict Dame Martha Giflford. The Colonel, it
would seem, was of this family.
226 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
MAJOR JOHN METHAM
Is subject to much the same remarks as was the last
officer. The Major at the Boyne was James Dodding-
ton, the Captain on this muster.
CAPTAIN JAMES DODDINGTON,
Promoted to the Majority and killed at the Boyne, as
supra. A Captain Edward Doddington had the
command of 100 foot soldiers under the Lord Presi-
dent of Munster, in the war of that Province during
the reign of Elizabeth. When, at the close of the
year 1602, it was resolved to storm the Castle of
Dunboy, a breach having been made that was con-
sidered assailable, the decision of who was to lead the
assault having been referred to the dice, it fell upon
this Captain Doddington, who was * shot with two
bullets in his body, but not mortal.'*
CAPTAIN THOMAS ECCLESTON.
A branch of the Ecclestons of Eccleston in Lancas-
shire settled previous to this reign in the County of
Louth, where, in the churchyard of Drumshallon,
within the ruins of the old church, are monuments
commemorating the family, from Walter Eccleston
♦ Pacata Hibernia, pp. 568 & 674.
park£r's horse. 227
of Drumshallon, in December, 1675, to WiUiam, who
died in August, 1798. A manuscript book of pedi-
grees in Trinity College, Dublin, (F 3, 27) suggests
that the said Walter was the son of Tristram Eccles-
ton (who died in 1636), by his second wife Dorothy,
daughterof William Cranshaw of Lancashire ; and that
Tristram was himself the youngest son of James, who
was the son of Hugh Eccleston of the house of Eccles-
ton in Lancashire.
CAPTAIN WALTER HASTINGS.
A * Major ' Hastings, possibly this ' Captain,' was
committed a prisoner to the Tower in 1690.
CAPTAIN JAMES HOBB.
This name is not again on this Army List, while on
the Attainders only that of Eichard ' Hobbs ' of Creagh,
County of Wexford, appears.
LIEUTENANT THOMAS GREENE.
He was attainted in 1691, by the description of
Thomas Greene, Junior, of Corrstown, County of Kil-
kenny ; but nothing more has been ascertained con-
cerning him, nor what might be his kindred (as there
probably was such,) with the Lieutenant-Colonel
q2
228 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
killed, as before mentioned, at the Boyne. The war-
rant for pardon to a Nicholas Greene of Cork, dated
in 1701, is preserved in Harris's MSS. in the Royal
Dublin Society,* from which it appears that he was a
merchant, and had transported the ' King's ' provisions
to France in the ship ' James,' in time of war. His
pardon was, however, granted, on the ground " that
said Greene was ignorant of the freightage at the
time ; that theretofore, while the Irish party was in
possession of Cork and for ten years since, he had
adhered to the Protestant religion and interest ; and
that, when the Williamite forces landed in the har-
bour of Cork, he was the person who, at the hazard
of his life, guided them over that part of the sea
which encompassed the east marsh next adjoining
the said City, whereupon the garrison capitulated ;
and that he hath shewed his affection to our interest
by exposing his life whenever our affairs required
his service ; and for that particularly, with his own
hands, he took and brought in several proclaimed
Traitors and Tories, who suffered punishment for their
crimes, and that there were not wanting ample
testimonies to his integrity." At the Court of
Chichester House, in 1700, a John Greene claimed
the benefit of a leasehold interest in " the Castle and
great White House at Lucan," the land called the
Wood, and several other premises, as forfeited by
Patrick Sarsfield. His petition was however dismist
for non-prosecution.
• Vol. 10, p. 309.
Lieutenants,
Parker's horse. 229
ROBERT LOWICH,
ISIDORE DELAGARDE, (French)
GEORGE BAMFIELD,
ROBERT CHERNOCK.
None of these names occur again on the Army
List, or at all on the Attainders.
LIEUTENANT GEORGE OLDFIELD.
He appears to have been of a Wexford family. The
Outlawries of 1691 present the names of James and
Thomas Oldfield, of Duncannon in the County of
Wexford.
LIEUTENANT CHARLES SKELTON.
A SKETCH of Pedigree of the Skeltons of Sleaty in
the Queen's County, is preserved among the Manu-
scripts of Trinity College, Dublin (F 3, 27) ; and,
although the Christian name of this officer does not
appear upon it, he may probably have belonged to
the line.
Sir Bevil Skelton was the first who, while Envoy
at the Hague in 1688, having intercepted a letter by
which he learned the meditated expedition of the
Prince of Orange, communicated it to King James; but
230 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
not being accredited, he only incurred hostility there-
by, which led to his committal to the Tower. He
was, however, within a few days made Lieutenant
of the place which he had entered a prisoner.*
On this ' List ' a Thomas Skelton appears Lieu-
tenant in the King's Own Foot, while a James Skelton
is described as one of the witnesses to the Capitu-
lation of Galway, 21st July, 1691. In the Septem-
ber following, this James, described as then a Colonel,
was taken prisoner at the siege of Limerick, when
defending the fort at Thomond Bridge. He died of
the wounds he there sustained.f The Attainders
of 1691 exhibit the names of John and Bevil Skelton
of Dublin, and Maria Skelton, otherwise O'Brien.
Another Colonel Skelton passed over with James the
Second to France, and was Comptroller in the Estab-
lishment at St. Germains.J
CORNET THOMAS SMALLBONE.
r, ^, i EDMOND CONFORTH,
QuARTER-MaBTERS, jjQgjj^(.TQjj
None of these surnames occur again upon this List
or on the Attainders.
• Harris's Life of William III., p. 127.
t Story's Impartial History, part 2, pp. 180 <fe 226,
t Harleian Collections, v. 11, p. 391.
park£r's horse. 231
QUARTER-MASTER JOHN HILL.
The Attainders of 1641 include the names of Sir
William Hill, Knight, of Ballybeg or Allenstown,
County of Meath : and of Philip and Patrick Hill of
Dromyn, County of Wicklow. Those outlawed in
1691 were Arthur, Dominick, and James Hill of
Allenstown aforesaid, Gentlemen ; but no mention is
made of a John Hill.
QUARTER-MASTER CORMICK O'SULLIVAN.
This noble Sept was possessed of the ancient territory
of Beara, comprising the modern Baronies of Beare
and Bantry in the County of Cork, whence their
Chiefs took their respective designations of the
O'Sullivan Beare and the O'Sullivan Bantry ; while
another branch, styled O'Sullivan More, lorded over
Dunkerrin and part of Iveragh in the County of
Kerry, and a third were Chiefe of Knockgraflfon in
Tipperary. At the close of the twelfth century,
Laurence O'Sullivan succeeded to the See of Cloyne ;
as did Alan O'Sullivan thereto in 1240, in some
years aft«r which he was promoted to that of Lismore,
where he died in 1253. In 1376, the King, at the
instance of " his faithful liege, MacCarty of Des-
mond, Captain of his Nation," granted to Thomas
(y *Soulevan,' and Mac Creagh O'Soulevan, liberty to
pass over to the Court of Rome, provided they carried
232 KING JAUES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
or did nothing prejudicial to the English King. The
Four Masters relate that in 1398, Mac Cartie of
Carbeny, in Cork, gave the O'Sullivan a complete
overthrow, when two of his sons, Owen and Connor,
with many others, were slain. They give melancholy
importance to an annal of 1404, where it is said, " A
contest arose between Mac Carty and O'Sullivan
Buidhe ; and Turlogh Meith Mac Mahon was Mac
Carty's admiral at that time, who overtook O'Sullivan
at sea ; and also the sons of Dermod Mac Carty,
who were aiding O'Sullivan against Mac Carthy ; he
drowned O'Sullivan on that occasion, and took Donal,
son of Dermod Mac Carthy, prisoner." In 1563,
" O'Sullivan Beare, i. e. Donal, the son of Dermod,
son of Donal, son of Donal, son of Dermod Balbh, (the
stammerer) fell by the hand of a bad chief, namely,
Mac Gillicuddy ; and though famous as had been his
father Dermod, that Donal was a worthy heir to him ;
and his kinsman, Owen O'Sullivan, succeeded in his
place."
In the year 1581, the son of O'Sullivan, i. e. Donal,
the son of Donal, (of 1563) defeated the people of
Carberry. " The manner in which that happened
was this ; Captain Siuits (Zouch) having proceeded
from Cork through Carberry to the monastery of
Bantry, sent the sons of Turlogh, the son of Maol-
murry, son of Donagh Mac Sweeny, the son of
O'Donovan, and a number of the chiefs of Pobbles
and of the gentlemen of Carberry, to plunder the
son of O'Sullivan. The forces sent by the Captain
PARKER'S HORSE 233
having taken immense spoils and much booty, Donal
thought it a great mortification to suffer his property
to be carried away, and he himself alive ; and he
therefore attacked the Irish clans who were about
the booty, and it was verified on that day, that it is
not by a numerous force that a battle is gained, for
nearly three hundred of the Carberians were slain by
Donal, although his own party did not number much
more than fifty men who were able to fight in that
battle." To Sir John Perrot's Parliament of 1585
went "the O'Sullivan Beare, i. e. Owen, the son of
Dermod, son of Donal, son of Donogh, son of Der-
mod Balbh ; as also O'Sullivan More, i. e. Owen, son
of Donal, son of Donal-na-Sgreadaighe." At the
crisis of the Munster War, O'Neill and O'Donnell
confided the command and control of their forces
(according to the Four Masters) to the O'Sullivan
Beare, then Donal, son of Donal, son of Dermod ;
*for he was the chief commander of his party in Mun-
ster, at that time, in wisdom and valour/ The
O'Sullivans, who had many strong castles over their
extent of maritime country, were inalienably at-
tached to the Desmond (see the ' Pacata Hibemia '
passim). By that devotion, and the discomfiture at
Kinsale, they suffered large confiscations, and their
chie^ the aforesaid Donal or Daniel, retiring to
Spain, distinguished himself there in military service
under the title of Count of Berehaven.*
In 1604, according to the state policy of the
• Ferrar's Limeiick, p. 174.
234 KING JAMES'S IRISH A&MT LIST.
time, Dermot, Daniel, and Cnogher O'Sullivan, de-
scribed as sons of Daniel O'Sullivan More, deceased,
surrendered all their lands and chiefiies in Kerry,
with the object of obtaining a re-grant thereof to
them in fee from the Crown. In the following year,
at the Royal instance, a similar surrender and re-
grant of the estates of Owen O'Sullivan, called the
O'Sullivan More, was effected by patents, with an
arrangement for the extinction of that Captaincy,
and for granting said Owen the title of Baron in
lieu thereof. He had afterwards, in 1612, an en-
larged grant of various Castles, Lands, Fisheries,
Duties, Markets, Courts, Tolls, and Chief Rents, as
formerly granted to his father ' Sir' Owen O'Sullivan,
(the rents having been payable to the Earl of Des-
mond) to hold same to him, the said Owen, in tail
male.* In 1613, Sir Thomas Roper had a grant of
large estates in Munster, and amongst these were
" parcels of the estates of Teigue Mc Daniel C'Swelli-
van,' and of Owen M'Donnell M'Donough O'Swellivan,
late of Cahirdonellmore, both slain in rebellion." In
1632, when the sea at the south of Ireland was in-
fested with Algerine Rovers, the Lord President of that
Province, in a letter to the Lords Justices, in reference
to the precautions he had taken to secure the coast of
Cork, writes : — "Mr. Daniel O'SuUivan has a house of
reasonable strength at Berehaven, and takes upon
him to defend it and Ballygobbin ; he promises to
• Rolls, Temp. Jac. 1, in CaDC. Hib.
Parker's horse. 235
erect five beacons upon the Dorseys, and four upon
the great island. I have directed O'Sullivan More,
who lives on the river of Eenmare, to take warning
from the beacon erected on the promontory over the
Dorseys, and by one of his own, to assemble his
tenants and servants at his strong and defensible
castle ; but I think this caution needless, as the
inhabitants on both sides of that river are but few,
till as far up as Glaneraught, where the pirates dare
not venture."*
In the Attainders of 1642 were Donell O'Sullivan
Beare, of Berehaven, PhOip O'Sullivan of Loughandy,
Owen of InQhiclough and Drimdavane, Donell Mac
Owen of Drumgarvan, John Mac Dermody of Der-
ryne, Gillicuddy O'Sullivan of Traghprashy, Connor
O'Sullivan of Loughane, and Owen Neagh O'Sullivan
of Drumgowlane, all in the County of Cork. This
Sept was represented at the supreme Council of Kil-
kenny by O'Sullivan More of Dunkeiran, and Daniel
O'Sullivan of Culmagort ; while the Declaration of
Boyal gratitude, in the Act of Settlement, preserves
the names of Captain Dermot O'Sullivan of Kilmeloe,
Lieutenant O'Sullivan of Fermoyle, and Ensign
Owen O'Sullivan, all in the County of Cork.
Of these outlawed in 1691, were Daniel O'Sullivan
of Rosmacone, McDermott Cnogher Sullivan, and
Cornelius Sullivan of Shiskeen ; Owen MacMurtough
Sullivan of Berehaven, John Mac Murtough Sulli-
van of Lanlaurence, Thady Sullivan of Killiebane,
• Smith's Cork, v. 1, p. 279.
236 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
Clerk, all in the County of Cork ; with Dermot Mac
Donell ' Soolevane ' of Litton, and Florence ' Soole-
vane ' of Nodden in the County of Kerry. In 1696,
Henry Lord Shelbume passed patent for lands of the
O'Sullivan More in the Barony of Dunkerron, County
of Kerry, his widow Mary receiving jointure off part
thereof. ^"At the Court of Claims, however,
Daniel 0' ' Sullevane,' styled, ' More,' claimed and was
allowed a fee by descent from Daniel O'Sullivan, his
grandfather, in the romantic district of Thomies at
Killamey, forfeited by Sir Nicholas Browne ; while
Sheely Sullivane, widow and executrix of Donald
Sullevane More, and Desmond Sullevane, their son
and heir, claimed interests in Cork lands, forfeited by
the Earl of Clancarty. Teigue Sullevane sought a
freehold near Killamey, also forfeited by Nicholas
Brown, but his petition was dismist ; while William
Sullevane claimed and was allowed a freehold in
Kerry lands, forfeited by Valentine Brown; and
Daniel Sullevane and Henrietta his wife, for them-
selves and their children, petitioned (but were dis-
mist) for freeholds and remainders in the Counties
of Wicklow, Kildare, and Kilkenny, — the confiscations
of Sir Edward Scott.
A Sullivan was the lasfc companion of the unfortu-
nate Prince Charles Edward, and shared all the hard-
ships and perils of his outcast days in Scotland.
At Ypres, in 1745, Tim O'Sullivan and Florence
Sullivan were of the wounded ; while at the battle of
Lauffield, in 1747, Murtough Sullivan of Clare's
PARKER'S HORSE. 237
Brigade was wounded, and subsequently Major O'Sul-
livan was for many years Town-Major of Prague.* —
" There is (1750) in Spain," writes Smith, in his
History of Cork, (vol. 1, p. 294) " a descendant of
O'Sullivan Bear, who is ennobled and called the
Count of Berehaven, and is also said to be hereditary
Governor of the Groyne." In the American War,
John Sullivan supereeded Arnold in the command of
the American army in Canada, in June, 1776 ; but
was soon driven out of that Province. He was after-
wards distinguished in the battles of Brandywine and
Germantown. In 1778, he laid siege to Newport,
and in the following year commanded an expedition
against the Six Nations of Indians in the State of
New York ; but resigned his command in chagrin at
the end of that year. In 1786, 1787, and 1789, he
was Governor of New Hampshire, and died in January,
1795.t
QUARTER.MASTEE MICHAEL STRITCH.
The Stritches are located on Ortelius's Map in the
Barony of Small-County, Limerick. When Ireton
took that City in 1651, Alderman Thomas Stritch
was one of the citizens excluded from mercy. In
May, 1640, Nicholas Stritch, as son and heir of Rich-
ard Stritch of Limerick, sued out 'livery' of his
* Burke's Landed Gentry, p. 498.
t Gent. Mag., 1855, p. 122.
238 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
estates from the Court of Ward. Besides this oflScer,
Stephen ' Stretch' is, in the present Army List, an
Ensign in Sir Charles O'Bryan's Infantry (post).
On the Outlawries of 1691 the above Quarter-Master
is described as of Kilrush, County of Clare; an
Edward 'Stretch' of Limerick was likewise then
attainted. At the Court of Claims none were pre-
ferred against estates of the Stritches ; but Bartholo-
mew Stritch, as son and heir of Patrick Stritch,
claimed and was allowed a mortgage charged on lands
in Clare, forfeited by Daniel Mulloney.
QUARTER-MASTER THOMAS SELBY.
This name does not otherwise occur on the List, nor
on the Attainders. The ' Pacata Hibemia' makes
mention, (p. 656) of a Thomas Selby, Lieutenant to
Captain Francis Slingsby, in the War of Munster,
temp. Elizabeth, who, in a sharp engagement with the
* Rebels' of that Province, succeeded in taking from
them 2000 cows, 4,000 sheep, and 1000 ' garrans'
(horses).
purcell's horse.
239
REGIMENTS OF HORSE.
COLONEL NICHOLAS PURCELL'S
Capiams.
The Colonel. James Fitzgerald.
Robert Pnroell, Thomas PnroelL
Lieat-ColoneL
Gharks Mc Domiel,
Major.
John Everard.
IfilesBourk.
Daniel Mo Carthj.
Anthonjr Morres.
JohnPoroeU.
James Batler, of
Dimboyne.
Michael Kemj.
Cornelias Meagher.
Piers Power.
John Kenned jr.
Theobald PnroelL
Theobald Bntler.
Contet$,
James Bntler.
Anthonjr PnrcelL
Thomas Travers.
Bryan Meagher.
Owen Mc Carthjr.
Hugh Kennedjr.
Hngh PnrcelL
Thomas Meagh.
Quarter'M(uier$.
William Bannon.
Daniel Qninn.
James Tnmj.
John Fitzgerald.
Edmund Meagher.
Richard Keating.
James Wale.
COLONEL NICHOLAS PURCELL.
The meagre Army List printed in the Somers' Col-
lection of Tracts, (vol. XL p. 411) classes this Regi-
ment among the Dragoons, and reports its strength
as twelve troops, totting 720 men. It was chiefly
raised in Tipperary. Sir Hugh Purcell, the ancestor
of this family in Ireland, married Beatrix, daughter of
Theobald Butler. The name was early introduced
into Munster, where it soon became so numerous
that the rolls of licences for protection and pardon
in the year 1310, (in prudence then necessitated)
include no less than thirteen adult Purcells ; while
240 KING James's irish army list.
eight years previously Hugh, Philip, Maurice, and
Adam Purcell were of the Irish magnates summoned
to the Scottish war. A friary for Conventual Francis-
cans was founded in 1240, at Wateiford, by the Lord
' Hugh Purcell,' who was interred there in the same
year.* John Purcell, Abbot of St. Thomas's Monastery
of Dublin, having given credence to the pretensions of
Lambert Simnel, was obliged in 1488 to sue out pardon
and to take the oath of allegiance before Sir Richard
Edgecombe. In 1538, Philip Purcell was Abbot of
Holy-Cross, as was subsequently John Purcell Prior
of St. John's Abbey, Kilkenny, where his tomb of
black marble is yet to be seen.f In the reigns of
Elizabeth and James, Purcells were seised of many
castles and manors in Kilkenny. The only individual
of this name attainted in 1642, was William Purcell of
Irishtown, County of Kildare, clerk. Robert Purcell,
styled ' of Curry,' was one of the Supreme Council in
1646. When Limerick was taken by Ireton in
1651, Major-Greneral Purcell was one of the garrison
excluded from mercy ;J and in the following year
Cromwell, by his Act 'for settling Ireland,' further
excepted this Major-General from pardon for life and
estate. During the time of the Commonwealth, an
Inquisition was directed and a survey made of the
parish of Crumlin, County of Dublin, by Royal Com-
mission, and a map was drawn (which is in the
possession of Ignatius Francis Purcell, the present
• Archdall'sMon. Hib., p. 704. t Ware's Bishops, p. 459.
{ Leland's Ireland, v. 8, p. 402.
purcell's horse. 241
proprietor) by which it is shown that the Purcells
were then, as they had been for a long time previously,
the owners of neariy the whole parish. By the
Act of Settlement (1663), Theobald Purcell was con-
firmed in his estate, as was also Philip Purcell of
Ballyfoyle, County of Kilkenny ; while the Declaration
of Royal gratitude therein, * for services beyond the
seas,' especially named James Purcell of Knockmoe,
[Loughmow] County of Tipperary. He ranked in
1670 as the titular Baron of that ancient place, and
was grand-nephew of the first Duke of Ormonde. Of
this very ancient line a full pedigree is given in
a genealogical manuscript in T.C.D. (F. iv. 18).
On the present Army List, besides the Colonel and
six other Purcells in this Regiment, a James Purcell
was Lieutenant in Lord Clare's Dragoons, Edmund
Purcell in Lord Mountcashel's Infantry, Owen in
Colonel Edward Butler's, and Peter in the King's Own.
In Sir Michael Creagh's, Richard Purcell was a Cap-
tain ; in Colonel Dudley Bagnall's, Nicholas Purcell
was an Ensign ; and in Lord Galmoy's Horse, James
Purcell was a Comet (he was wounded at Derry) ;
while this latter was also the name of a Colonel of
Infantry in the service. A Robert Purcell stands on
the Establishment of 1687-8 for a pension of £253
per annum.
The above Colonel Nicholas was titular Baron of
Loughmow. In 1686, he was added to the King's
Privy Council of Ireland, and in 1689 was one of
the Representatives of the County of Tipperary in the
242 KING James's irish army list.
Parliament of Dublin. That Parliament was yet sit-
ting when King James wrote to Lieutenant-General
Hamilton, then 'at the camp of Deny/ that he had
ordered 'Purcell's Dragoons' to Belturbet ; and the
achievements of this Regiment, within four miles of
Enniskillen, are commended by another despatch from
the Duke of Berwick to the same Lieutenant-General.
Late on the fatal day of the battle of the Boyne,
King James, yet ignorant that his rival had passed
the river at Old Bridge, took the reserve, which con-
sisted of Colonel Purcell's Horse and Browne's Infan-
try, to where he found Lausun drawn up in battle
array, with intent to charge the enemy's right, which
stood on his front within cannon-shot; while however
he was considering this movement, he received intima-
tion of the state of the field, and the attempt, which
James projected, was pronounced by Sarsfield and
Maxwell to be impracticable.* On Lord Tyrconnel's
subsequent departure to France, Colonel Nicholas Pur-
cell, who was a zealous adherent of Sarsfield, was of the
Deputation despatched by the war party to St. Grer-
mains, to solicit their King to remove Tyrconnel from
the government of this country.f On the passage,
according to 0'Conor,J "he and Colonel Henry Lut-
trel designed to throw overboard Brigadier Maxwell,
who was the accredited agent of the Duke of Berwick,
and who, as these 'conspirators' were aware, had
* O'Callaghan's Excidium MacaricBj p. 352.
t Clarke 8 James II., v. 2, p. 422.
X O'Conor's Military Mem. p. 128.
purcell's hoese. • 243
secret instructions to apprise the King that the
Duke's object in placing them on the mission was, that
his Majesty might have the facility of detaining
them in France, as in Ireland they were 'the fire-
brands of the army.'" Colonel Nicholas was afterwards
one of those who negotiated and signed, on behalf of
the Irish, the Treaty of Limerick. He was then
most active in his endeavours to dissuade his country-
men f5pom taking service with foreign powers, and
rather to enlist in the English army. O'Conor
accordingly represents his Regiment as one of those
that, with Clifford's, Luttrell's, Lord Iveagh's, Dillon's,
and *Hussey's,' turned over to the new government.
"The recreants," says that writer, "were mustered
near the General's quarters, and regaled with bread,
cheese, brandy, tobacco, and a fortnight's subsistence,
to steel them against the reproaches of their country-
men, and drown any scruples of conscience or honour,
that might induce them to return to their colours.
Colonel Nicholas was, nevertheless, attainted in 1691,
with Ignatius and John Purcell of Crumlin, Robert
and James Purcell of Dublin, John of Connehy, County
of Kilkenny, Thomas of Clillenclin, Theobald of Clone,
(who was found seized of 1478 acres in the Barony
of Galmoy,) Purcell, son of John Purcell of
Lissinane, in the County of Kilkenny, Robert Fitz-
Theobald Purcell of the City of Kilkenny, Edward of
Cork, Nicholas of Loughbricyand, County of Down,
Tobias Purcell of Maynard, Queen's County, and
Philip Purcell of Fleskhugh, County of Galway. Of
r2
244 KING James's irish army list.
all these outlaws only Ignatius Purcell obtained a par-
don from the Crown. At the Court of Claims,
Colonel Nicholas Purcell and Ellen his wife claimed
and were allowed her portion off Cork and Kerry
lands, forfeited by Lord Kenmare and Nicholas his
son.
It may be mentioned that in March, 1691, (accord-
ing to Story,*) Lieutenant-Colonel Toby Purcell, on
several occasions, in King William's service, killed one
hundred of the Rapparees in the County of Longford.
He subsequently, in June of that year, was appointed
Governor of Ballymore, with five companies of the
Ee^ment of General Douglas, who had gone off to
Flanders.f In July following, he was one of three
hostages exchanged for three others of James's army,
pending the negotiations for the capitulation of
Galway.J After the war, he was appointed Go-
vernor of the fort of Duncannon, and on a repre-
sentation of his services theretofore, especially at
Newry, memorialed King William for a confirmation ot
certain lands in Tipperary to him.§ Story relates
that a Major Purcell was killed at Aughrim; while,
according to another authority,|| Baron Purcell of
Loughmow and his son were kOled there.
The family above alluded to as of Crumlin, County of
Dublin, had removed thither from Munster at so early
* Impartial History, part 2, p. 60.
t Idem, p. 93. J Iddm, p. 164.
§ Thorpe's Cat. Southwell MSS., 247.
II Rawdon Papers, p. 351.
purcell's noRSE. 245
a period, that in the muniments of St. Patrick s Cathe-
dral is recorded a petition of John Purcell, Esq., claim-
ing a right to be buried in the chancel of the Church of
Crumlin, as a privilege which his ancestors had en-
joyed time out of mind, and this his claim was so
proved and allowed. The privilege of burial in the
chancel was only conceded in early times to the
lord of the fee, which in Crumlin is still vested in
Ignatius Francis Purcell.
Many Purcells followed the fortunes of James the
Second to the Continent, and were distinguished in
the armies of France, Spain, and Portugal.
CAPTAIN JOHN EVERARD.
This name is considered of Danish origin ; if so, it has
been very generally planted over England, especially
in the southern parts of that island, earlier than it
came into Ireland; where it is recorded that, in 1131,
Everard died Abbot of Mary's Abbey.* In 1356,
John ' Everhard ' was one of those influential pro-
prietors, within what was distinguished as the County
of the Cross of Tipperary, who then elected its Sherifll
The persons who exercised this authority with him
were John ' Mauncell,' Knight ; Robert ' Wodlock,'
Simon Cantwell, James Warner, Thomas ' Walleys,'
Thomas Taunt, John ' Mauclerk,' William Sause,
Robert Burtuin, with fourteen others; and the person
* Rolls in Chancery.
246 KING James's irish army list.
whom they elected to this oflSce was Andrew Haket.
Laurence Everard was one of those who, in 1415,
fought at the battle of Agincourt, a place not gene-
erally known to be identified with the now peaceful
site of St. Omer's. In 1531, Sir Thomas Everard
was chosen Prior of the Religious House of St. John
the Baptist, at Dublin. A genealogical manuscript
in Trinity College, Dublin, (F. iii. 27) contains a
sketch of the lineage of the Everards of Fethard, for
six generations, of the fifteenth and sixteenth cen-
turies.
In Sir John Perrot's Parliament of 1585, Redmond
Everard was one of the Representatives of the County
of Tipperary. In 1603, John Everard of Fethard
was appointed a Justice of the King's Bench in Ire-
land ; he was afterwards knighted, and had a grant
of various manors, castles, towns, and lands in the
Counties of Tipperary and Waterford.* In 1612, he
was elected Speaker of the House of Commons by the
recusant party, having resigned his Judgeship sooner
than take the oath of supremacy. This election was
however over-ruled, and Sir John Davis, the King's
Attorney-General, was substituted. Richard Ever-
ard of Everard's Castle, the second son of said Sir
John, was one of the Confederate Catholics in 1646 ;
and was in 1651 condemned to die, when Ireton
took Limerick.f His eldest son. Sir Redmond of
Fethard, Baronet, was by the Act of Settlement (1662)
restored to his principal seat and two thousand acres
* Rolls in Chancery. f Lelaud's Ireland, v. 3, p. 402.
purcell's horse. 247
of land ; while the Declaration of Royal gratitude in
the same Act recognised his services beyond the seas.
He married Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Richard
Butler of Kilcash/ County of Tipperary, a brother of
the whole blood to the Duke of Ormonde ; and by
her had issue two sons, Sir John his eldest, and James
Everard his second son, with four daughters. Sir
Redmond died in Dublin in February 1686, and was
buried in Trinity Church, Fethard ; as testified by a
Funeral Entry in Birmingham Tower avouched by
Sir John Everard, his eldest son. The will of Sir
Redmond is of record in the Rolls Office, Dublin.
Another fiineral entry, in Birmingham Tower,
certifies the burial in St. Werburgh's church on the
7th June, 1661, of Nicholas Everard, son of John, son
of Nicholas, son of Sir John, son of Redmond ; and
that the first named Nicholas died, a bachelor, as at-
tested by Redpiond Everard, his heir.
On this Army List, besides Captain John, appear
of the Everard family Lucas, a Captain in Lord
Slane's Infantry ; as was James in Colonel Thomas
Butlers ; while in Sir Michael Creagh's, Patrick
Everard was a Lieutenant and Andrew Everard an
Ensign. This Patrick represented Kells in King
James's Parliament, where Sir John, the Baronet, was
one of the members for the County of Tipperary.
This last individual was killed at the battle of Augh-
rim,* and seems identical with the above Captain
John, of this Regiment. Another Everard, ranked
♦ Story's Impartial Hist, part 2, p. 138.
248 KING James's irish army ust.
Lieutenant-Colonel, and described as of Randalstown,
County of Meath, (but not on this List) was adjudged
within the benefit of the Articles of Limerick ; while
of those attainted were Matthew of Randalstown,
Patrick of Navan, Lucas of Fyanstown, and Thomas
of Oristown, aU in the County of Meath ; with Sir
John of Fethard, and James of the County of Water-
ford.
In 1697, a part of the Meath estate of Patrick
Everard was granted to Arthur Padmore and Joshua
Dawson, as were in 1702 the Tipperary estates of Sir
John of Fethard, partly to Richard Burgh of Grove,
and partly to David Lowe of Knockelly in said
County ; and a portion of his Waterford estates to
James Roche, in consideration of his services at
Derry. In 1703, a further section of Patrick Eve-
rard's Meath property was purchased by Alderman
John Leigh of Drogheda, from the Commissioners of
the Forfeited Estates, and another by the Hollow
Swords 'Blades' Company. Estates of his in the
County of Roscommon were acquired on similar title
by Richard Lloyd of Cavetown ; and others, in the
County of Longford, by James Johnston of Little-
mount, County of Fermanagh. At Chichester
House, in 1700, Matthias Everard claimed, as son
and heir of Thomas Everard, an estate in fee in the
Meath forfeitures of the aforesaid Patrick ; whOe, on
the whole estate of Sir John Everard, Margaret Eve-
rard claimed and was allowed a portion, as were John
and Christopher Everard sundry interests. James
purcell's horse. 249
Butler and Anstace his wife also claimed interests in
the said forfeitures of Sir John and in those of Pierse
Everard.
In 1733, Sir Richard Everard, of the Fethard
lineage, died Governor of North Carolina. In
1750, under a decree in the cause of Dawson v. Eve-
rard, a considerable remnant of the Everard estates
was sold out of their possession.
LIEUTENANT JOHN KENNEDY.
The O'Kennedys were, according to native chronicles,
of the Dalcassian race, and possessed for centuries the
district known in later years as the Barony of Upper
Ormond, County of Tipperary. The Four Masters
very faithfully record the succession of the chiefe of
this Sept to the days of Queen Elizabeth ; and the
venerable Annals of Tigemach relate the death of
Cathal O'Kennedy, ' King of the Kinselaghs,' at so
early, a period as 758. In 1159, say the former
historians, Gildas Kevin O'Kennedy, Prince of Or-
mond, died in pilgrimage at Killaloe ; as did Donal,
son of Teigue O'Kennedy, Lord of Ormond, in 1180.
In 1252, Donald O'Kennedy, Bishop of Killaloe, was
interred in the Dominican friary of Nenagh, which his
Sept had founded. In 1599, died O'Kennedy Fion,
namely, Anthony, son of Donogh Oge, son of Hugh,
son of Aulaffe ; and GioUa Dhu O'Kennedy was
named The O'Kennedy. Sir Oliver Lambert, Blnight
250 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
and Privy Councillor, had a large grant in 1605 of
various estates of this family, forfeited by their rebel-
lion in the Munster wars. Cromwell's Act of 1652
excepted from pardon for life and estate (inter alios)
John O'Kennedy of Dunally, County of Tipperary.
In the counter-action of Royal gratitude, the acknow-
ledgment of 1662, for services beyond the seas,
includes the names of Captain Philip and Lieu-
tenant Daniel Kennedy ; while in the same year Sir
Richard Kennedy of Mount Kennedy, Baronet, was
appointed a Baron of the Irish Exchequer.
In the List of proposed Sheriffs, submitted to the
Earl of Clarendon in 1685, the name of Sir Robert
Kennedy was given in for Wicklow, with the obser-
vation, " If to be judged by his intimates, extremely
whiggish." On which suggestion Lord Clarendon
comments, " An honest gentleman, descended from
loyal parents, who were in the Usurper's time sufferers
for their loyalty ; and himself an active Justice of the
Peace."* Besides Lieutenant John Kennedy, this
Army List presents Kennedy Mac Kennedy, a Quarter-
Master in Colonel Francis Carroll's Dragoons.
The Outlawries of 1691 include the names of
Michael Kennedy of Tureen, County of Westmeath,
John, Thomas and Darby Kennedy of Dublin ;
William Kennedy of Mount Kennedy, County of
Wicklow, popularly called 'Lord William Kennedy' ;
Edmund of Tintern, County of Wicklow ; Daniel of
Kilbrubrickley, County of Mayo ; William of Finns-
* Singer's Correspondence of Lord Clarendon, &c.yol. 1, p. 285.
purcell's horse. 251
town, County of Dublin, (houses of his in the City
of Dublin, including Kennedy's-lane, were purchased
in 1703 by John Asgill from the Trustees of the for-
feited estates,) and Donogh O'Kennedy of the County
of Galway, on whose estate Morgan Kennedy claimed
a remainder in tail, but his petition was dismist.
In 1747, at the fight of Lauffield, near Maestricht,
Captain Bryan Kennedy of Bulkeley's Irish Brigade,
was killed; while in Dillon's, Lieutenant Charles
Kennedy was killed, and Captains John and Joseph
were wounded.*
CORNET THOMAS TRAVER.
This surname does not again occur upon the List ;
nor at all upon the Outlawries of 1691 ; while those
of 1642 have the names of Robert, Luke, and William
* Travers' of Ballykea, County of Dublin, and Patrick
Travers, of the same place. Clerk. Sir John Travers,
who seems to have been of a family located at Bally-
kea aforesaid, died in 1561. In the confiscations of
1691, William Travers of the Ballykea line forfeited
120 acres in the parish of Lusk^ County of Dublin.
It may be presumed that Cornet Thomas ' Traver '
was of his family.
• Gent. Mag., ad atm., p. 377.
252 KING James's irisii army list.
CORNET THOMAS MEAGH.
Neither does this name again occur upon this List ;
but on the Attainders of 1642 appears John Meagh
of Loughurke, County of Cork. On the Establish-
ment of 1687-8 is an entry of £6 13s. 4d. rent,
charged as " payable to Patrick Meagh for the lands
of Castlelinny Park, whereon the fort near the har-
bour of Kinsale doth stand." In the Parliament
of 1689, Henry Meagh sat as one of the Representa-
tives of the Borough of Knocktopher. His name is
on the Outlawries of 1691, with that of David
Meagh of * Moyaller,' County of Cork.
In St. Mary's Church, Youghal, is a large altar
tomb to the memory of Peter ' Miagh,' who was
mayor of that ancient Borough in 1630, and died in
1633. 'The plinth,' says the Rev. Mr. Hayman, in
his interesting account of this Church, {History of
Youghal)^ 'has a skeleton in a shroud rudely engraven
on its outer face. Above it rise Corinthian columns,
between which are armorial bearings. Two figures
of angels surmount these pillars, and on the summit is
a third, clad in loose drapery, the right pointing up-
ward and the left bearing a cross. This mooument
was erected by his widow Phelisia Nagle.'
QUARTER-MASTER JAMES WALE.
In relation to this surname, John de Wale was in
purcell's horse. 253
1348, advanced to the see of Ardfert, as was Stephen
de Wale to that of Limerick in 1360 ; the latter was
promoted to Meath in 1369. In 1475, James Wale
succeeded to the Bishoprick of Kildare, and in 1585,
David Wale was one of the Representatives of the
Borough of Fethard, Tipperary, in Sir John Perrot's
parliament. In 1618, Sampson Theobalds had a grant
from the Crown of the castle, town and lands of
Maginstown, County of Tipperary ; parcel of the
estates of Richard Wale attainted.* An Inquisition
post mortem^ taken at Carlow, 14th of June, 1620,
supplies the links of descent of 'Wales' of that County
for three past generations ;f while the monimients
in the Cathedral of Kilkenny commemorate various
'Wales' of the vicinity in the seventeenth century.
The Attainders of 1642 present the names of James
Wale of Clonmulk, County of Carlow ; and those of
1696, include Philip Wale of Drogheda, merchant,
and Lucas Wale of Crehelp, County of Wicklow.
The name of Quarter-Master James Wale does not
appear amongst them, nor does that of Matthew
Wale, who was an Ensign in the Infantry Regiment
commanded by Fitz-James, the Grand Prior.
♦ Rot. Pat. 15, Jac. 1 in Cane. Hib.
t Inqtds. in Cane. Hib.
254 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
AU the foregoing Regiments of Horse were engaged
at Aughrim, together with two Troops of Horse-
Guards (the Duke of Berwick's, and Lord Dover's ;)
and also a Troop of Horse-Grenadiers commanded by
Colonel Butler, and other Regiments of Horse under
Lord Balmallock, the Earl of Westmeath, and Lord
Merrion, respectively.
KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. 255
KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
Regiments of Dragoons.
1. Lord Dongan's (now Earl of Limerick).
2. Sir Neill O'Neill's.
3. Lord Clare's.
4. Colonel Simon Luttrell's.
5. Colonel Robert Cufford's.
6. Colonel Francis Carroll's.
[7. Brigadier Thomas Maxwell's].
236
KIXG JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
REGIMENTS OF DRAGOONS.
LORD DONGAN'S, NOW EARL OF LIMERICK.
The Colonel.
Francis Carroll,
Lieat.-ColoneL
Conlj Geoghegan,
Migor.
WUliam Arohbold.
Cormock O'NeilL
Olirer Plonkett.
Daniel O'Neill.
Charles Moore.
Lord Kingsland.
Richard Bellew.
John Mao Namara.
Piers Archbold.
Patrick Nngent.
James Carroll.
Lieutenants.
Thomas Carenagh.
James Carroll.
Comets. Qfiarttr'Masters,
Thomas Kellj. Phelim Fox.
Cormack * Eggan.* Robert Qnin.
Michael Archbold. Garrett Fitcgerald. Francis Bowers.
Arthur 0*NeilL James Geoghegan. Peter Dobbin.
Henry Talbot. Walter Fitxgerald. Richard Netterrille.
Patrick Nugent. John Mappas. Richard Archbold.
John Hurlj. Nicholas Darcy. Simon Brioe.
William Talbot. James Bellew. James Wolrerston.
George Talbot. Piers Butler. William Nugent
James Archbold. Thomas Dongan.
John Mapas. Richard Archbold.
William Carroll John Begg.
dongan's dragoons. 257
COLONEL LORD DONGAN.
This surname appears to have been of native and Mi-
lesian origin ; or, if it came over from England, it was
very soon naturalized. In 1387, Dermot O'Dongan
was presented, by the Marquess of Dublin, to a bene-
fice within the Diocese of Limerick; and in 1392 the
King granted to Thomas 'O'Dongyn,' chaplain, and an
admitted * Irishman,' the liberty of using the English
tongue and law ; and the native annalists speak of
the ancient Sept of O'Donnegan, who were extensive
proprietors in the half Barony of Orrery, County of
Cork.»
In 1395, John Dongan, a Benedictine Monk, who
had been previously Bishop of Derry, was translated
to the See of Down ; Henry the Fourth constituted
him Seneschal of Ulster, and in 1405 joined him in a
Commission to eflTectuate a peace between Sir Donald
Mac Donald, Lord of the Isles, and his brother John
of the one part, and on the other the merchants of
Drogheda and Dublin, who had twice led harassing
forays into Scotland: this prelate died in 1412.f
After the Dissolution, William Dongan had a grant
of the beautiful Abbey of Ennis, with a mill, an eel
and salmon weir, and houses and gardens ' in the vil-
lage.' In Queen Mary's Charter of Restitution to St.
Patrick's Cathedral (1555), John Dongan was named
the Prebendary of Howth. Another John Dongan,
♦ Annals of the Four Masters (Geraghty's), p. 176, n.
t Ware's Bishops, p. 201.
S
258 KING James's irish army list.
who had been Second Remembrancer of the Exche-
quer in the time of Henry the Eighth, was a propri-
etor in the City of Dublin, and in the Counties of
Carlow and Kildare. He died about 1594, as shown
by Inquisitions post martem then taken. This was
the ancestor of the above Lord Dongan, and he
devised his estates to Walter Dongan, his eldest son
and heir, with remainders, in failure of his issue, to
William, Edward, and Thomas Dongan, his second,
third, and fourth sons, in tail male successively ; and,
on failure of all these lines, to Thomas Dongan, the
brother of said testator, John.* This Walter, styled
of Abbotstown, County of Dublin, brought four
archers on horseback to the general Hosting on the
hill of Tara in 1593, for the Barony of Navan. He
was created a Baronet by King James. In 1615 he
made a settlement of all his estates, and in the follow-
^ ing year passed patent for the manor of Kildrought
(Castletown), where he and his descendants thence-
forth resided ; with various lands, castles, mills, weirs,
and woods, also the manor of Sherlockstown, and
other possessions in the County of Kildare and
the County and City of Dublin.f He died in 1626,
leaving John Dongan, his son and heir, then aged
twenty-three and married. This Sir John Dongan,
on his father's death, took up his residence at Castle-
town, in the County of Kildare. He was a member
of the Irish Parliament of 1634. Of his family were
Thomas Dongan, junior, and Oliver Dongan, attainted
♦ Inq. post mortem, 18 Jac. I. f Patent Roll in Ganc. Hib.
doxgan's dragoons. 259
in 1642, and described in their Outlawries as 'of
Castletown ;' while his son, Walter, was one of the
Confederate Catholics assembled in four years after
at Kilkenny. In 1644, Thomas Dongan was ap-
pointed a Justice of the King's Bench, and subse-
quently (in 1651,) promoted to be a Baron of the
Exchequer.- On the Restoration, William Dongan,
who had been a Knight and Baronet, was created a
Viscount. He was married on the Continent, which
necessitated the Act styled in the Commons Journals,
"for the naturalization of Maria Euphemia ' Dungan,'
Walter 'Dungan,' Esq. and Ursula 'Dungan,' his
issue bom beyond the seas ;" while he was advanced
to the Earldom of Limerick.
Of him the Earl of Clarendon wrote, in August,
1686, to the Earl of Rochester, " My Lord Limerick
was with me. I must needs say he is always very
civil to me, notwithstanding his relations. He makes
wonderful professions of obligations he had to my
father, and likewise to yourself. He tells me sad sto-
ries of the ill condition of his own fortune, how he
was forced to sell £400 per annum to pay the debts
which he contracted in the King's service, and that
he never had any thing since the King's Restoration ;
that the late King promised, and his present Majesty
said he would make that promise good, that he should
have a pension of £500 per annum, till £5,000 was
paid. This morning my Lord Dongan was with me,
and desired I would send the enclosed letter upon the
s2
260 KING James's irish army list.
same business/'* On the 9th of October following,
the same Viceroy writes to Rochester again upon this
subject : — " Pray give me leave to put you in mind
of a letter, I some time since sent to you from Lord
Dongan ; I am called upon every day for an answer.
You cannot imagine (he adds with much naivete)
how impatient people here are who expect anything,
even those who think themMlves the best bredJ'^ In
a previous letter of this Clarendon to Rochester, in
April of the same year, after alluding to Lord Don-
gan as having gone over to England, he says, " His
going over makes a great discourse here, as in truth
most things do ; for some or other will comment upon
all that is done. Those officers of the army, who are
lately come out of England, say he is gone, upon his
uncle Lord Tyrconnell's direction, to kiss the King's
hand for a Troop of Horse, which they say he is to
have upon the changes^ and truly that seems very
likely ; but others will have it that he has become a
statesman, and is gone upon some deep matters rela-
ting to the Catholic cause ; which suggestion comes
from those of that religion, and is grounded upon Dr.
Moore, a physician, being gone with him, who is a
man of great account among that party, and is looked
upon to be so subtle and designing a man, that he
would not go over purely on a compliment to that
young Lord, who Ls a very prattling and impertinent
youth, and forward enough, and is so looked upon
• Singer's Correspondence of Clarendon, v. 1, p. 566.
t Idem, V. 2, p. 24.
dongan's dragoons. 261
here."* This Lord, the Colonel under consideration,
was named Walter, and he sat in King James's Par-
liament as one of the Representatives of Naas, while
his father was one of the Peers. On the tenth day of
that Session he was despatched by his King to Gene-
ral Hamilton before Derry, carrying the important
announcement, " I now send back to you this bearer.
Lord Dongan, to let you know what this day I have
been informed, by one who came from Chester on
Wednesday last, that Kirke was to sail with the first
fair wind from thence, with four Regiments of Foot,
to endeavour to relieve Derry. I have ordered a copy
of the information to be sent you I have sent
some Horse and Dragoons to reinforce Sarsfield at
Sligo, and have ordered Purcell's dragoons to Beltur-
bet. What else I have to say I refer to this bearer,
Lord Dongan."f
Lord Dongan's career was, however, short ; he fell
at the Boyne ; and, as the Duke of Berwick writes,
" Notwithstanding the Foot was broken, the right
wing of Horse and Dragoons marched, and charged
such of the Enemy's Horse and Foot as passed the
river ; but my Lord Dongan being slain at the first by
a great shot, his Dragoons could not be got to do any
thing, nor did Clare's do much better. Nevertheless,
the Horse did their duty with great bravery, and,
though they did not break the Enemy's Foot, it was
more by reason of the ground not being favourable
• Singer's Correspondence of Clarendon, v. 1, p. 843.
t Manuscripts T.C.D., (E 2, 19.)
262 KING James's irish army list.
than for want of vigour ; for, after they had been
repulsed by the Foot, they rallied again, and charged
the Enemy's Horse, and beat them every charge."*
Lord Dongan's corpse was carried from the field to
the family mansion at Castletown, and there interred
in the parish church, whose unnoted ruins are still
traceable near Celbridge.
The Attainders of 1691 include Euphemia 'Dun-
gan,' alias Countess of Limerick, and William, Earl of
Limerick. His confiscations comprised the castle,
manor, and lands of Castletown-Kildrought, and
other estates in the Counties of Dublin, Carlow,
Meath, Kilkenny, Longford, Tipperary and Queen's
County, as found by eleven distinct Inquisitions.
They comprised nearly 30,000 acres, with several
houses in Dublin, and some impropriate rectories,
glebes, advowsons of vicarages and tithes ; all which
lands were given to De Ginkle, Earl of Athlone and
Baron of Aughrim, a grant confirmed by Act of Par-
liament so early as in 1693 ; while seven impropriate
rectories with the glebes in the County of Tipperary
were, in 1703, made over to the 'Trustees for the
augmentation of small livings and other ecclesiastical
uses ' ; as was that of Castletown-Kildrought in the
County of Kildare, in which parish he had lived. The
claims put forward in 1700, as incumbrances afiecting
these estates, and some of which were allowed, were
those of Euphemia Countess of Limerick for her
jointure, charged by settlements of 1684 ; under
• Clarke's James II., v. 2, p. 399.
dongan's dragoons. 263
which conveyance, Thomas, described as Eari of Lim-
erick, claimed an estate tail in the lands of Castle-
town, &c., &c. Grace Ryder, alias Dongan, widow,
also claimed a portion of £100 with interest as
charged on a house in Patrick-street, Dublin, by the
will of her father, John Dongan, dated 29th Novem-
ber, 1665 ; while Owen Dongan sought a life estate
in lands at Grange-Clare in said County of Kildare.
Both these latter claims were however dismist on
non-prosecution. William, Earl of Limerick, fol-
lowed his King to France, where he died in 1698 ;
when a " Colonel Dongan took upon him the title,
and was said to have been introduced in that rank
and quality to kiss his Majesty's hands."*
On the fall of Lord Dongan, the command of this
Regiment was given to his relative Walter Nugent,
son of Francis Nugent of Dardistown, by the Lady
Bridget Dongan, sister to the Earl of Limerick.
Colonel Walter was however himself slain at Aughrim,
when the command was given to the Honorable Rich-
ard Bellew, second son of Lord Bellew, and a Captain
on this List.
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL FRANCIS CARROLL.
He became full Colonel of a distinct Regiment of
Dragoons, as hereafter shewn.
♦ Thorpe's Catal. p. 226. Of this Colonel Thomas and his
achievements abroad, see fully O'Callaghan's Brigades^ p. 331, &c.
264 KING James's irish army list.
MAJOR CONLY GEOGHEGAN.
This Sept claims descent from Fiachra, one of the
sons of Nial of the Nine Hostages, Monarch of Ire-
land in the Fifth Century. Their territory was
called Kinel-Fiacha, and is by O'Dugan described as
having extended over the whole tract now known as
the Barony of Moycashel, with parts of those of
Moyashell, Rathconrath and FertuUagh in Westmeath ;
within which they erected and long maintained the
possession of various castles, the chief being at Castle-
to wn-Geoghegan near Kilbeggan, whose wide site is
marked upon the Ordnance Survey.
In 1328, William Geoghegan, chief of Kinel-Fiacha,
defeated Thomas le Botiller with the English army,
near Mullingar. According to the Four Masters, the
latter sustained a loss of 3,500 men, including " their
leader and some of the D'Altons." The victor died in
1332, and the same annalists record with singular
exactness his successors in the Captaincy for centuries
after. In 1450 they relate, after detailing various
acts of what might be called treasonable resistance on
the part of this Sept, that "the English of Meath and
the Duke of York, with the Kin^s Standard^ marched
to Mullingar ; and the son of Mac Geoghegan, with a
great force of cavalry in armour, marched on the same
day to Beal-atha-glass to meet the English, who came
to the resolution of making peace with them ; and
they forgave him all he had committed on them^ on
conditions of obtaining peace."* Campion preserves a
dongan's dragoons. 265
letter attributed to this Duke of York, written from
Dublin to the Earl of Shrewsbury, in which, alluding
to the power and hostility of Mac Geoghegan, he en-
treats " to have men of war in defence and safeguard
of this land, or my power cannot stretch to keep it in
the King's obeisance, and very nearly will compel me
to come into England, to live there upon my poor
* livelode ;' for I had 4ever' be dead, than any incon-
venience should fall thereto in my default ; for it shall
never be chronicled nor remain in scripture by the
grace of God, that Ireland was lost by my negligence."
An annal of 1488, connected with this family, affords
perhaps the earliest notice of the use of artillery in
Ireland. "The Earl of KUdare," say the Four
Masters, "marched with a predatory force into Kinel-
Fiacha, where he demolished the Castle of Belerath
on the sons of Murtagh Mac Geoghegan, after having
conveyed some 'ordnance^ thither." Remains of this
castle also are existing.
In 1556, Robert Cowley, a busy subordinate of his
day, recommended that the Baron of Delvin and his
son should be " occupied " against Mac Geoghegan,
O'Mulloy, &c.; and accordingly, in the following
year, the Deputy, Lord Leonard Grey, undertook an
expedition against those Septs, " by the conduct and
guidance of the Lord of Delvin," and compelled them
to give hostages ; immediately after which, in accord-
ance with the heartless policy of the day, their co-
operation was engaged for the subjugation of the
O'CarroUs. Early in 1540; a " peace " had been con-
266 KING James's irisu army list.
eluded between the Lord Deputy and Ross Mac Geogh-
egan,tlieaChief Captain of his nation and of the country
of ' Kinaleigh ;' by which the latter bound himself to
serve the Crown with four horsemen and twenty-
four footmen for a day and night, on notice, at any
time, and as often as the King's Deputy should please ;
and also to serve in every great hosting or journey
(especially against Brian O'Connor), with four horse-
men and twelve footmen during said journey, and at his
own proper costs and charges." In the June, how-
ever, of that year, information was forwarded to the
Privy Council of England, "that O'NeiU and O'Don-
nell, with all the powers of the north part of Ireland,
O'Connor, O'Mulloy, Mac Geoghegan, all the Kellys,
with the most part of the powers of Connaught,
O'Brien with all his company, are all combined, and
have appointed to meet at the King's manor of Fore,
the 6th of July next coming ; they also bringing
: with them five weeks' victuals. It is supposed and
thought that of truth their meaning is for no purpose
but only to allure the Lord Justice and Council with
the best of the English Pale to the said place, by the
Irishmen appointed, thinking by their great power to
take their advantage of the King's subjects, and so to
overrun all the English Pale at their own pleasure."
On the appearance, however, of Sir William Brereton,
with the forces of the Government, the Irish Confede-
rates scattered ; "whereupon," writes the Irish Council
to Henry VIII., " we concluded to do some exploit^ and
so entered into O'Connor's country, and there en-
dongan'8 dragoons. 267
camped in sundry places, destroying his habitations,
'coins J and fortHaces^ so long as our victuals endured,
which hath partly abated ftis ' surguedy ' and pride,
alhevt he remaineth on his cankered malice and ran-
cour, and so do all his confederates, continuing their
traitorous conferences, expecting their time to execute
their purpose." At length, Mac Geoghegan, O'Mulloy,
&c., submitted themselves, "whose submission,'' say
the amiable Council to their generoiis monarch, " we
accepted for this season, both for the causes aforesaid,
and also to the intent we might have opportunity of
the other confederates of Irishmen, with separation of
their confederacy, that they should not remain upon
war and peace jointly, as they pretended to do ;
but to be upon your Grace's peace, with their services,
and shall make certain fines."
In 1567, was published a map, in which Kinel-
Fiacha is described as Mac Geoghegan's country,
and as containing in length twelve, and in breadth
seven miles. " It lieth," says the abstract, " midway
between the fort of Faley (Philipstown) and Athlone,
five miles from either of them and also firom Mullin-
gar, which lieth northward of it ; southward is O'Mul-
loy's country. On the south-east lieth Offaley, on
the east it joineth Tyrrel's country, and O'Melaghlin's
on the west side, between it and Athlone, where a
comer of it joineth with the Dillon country." So
were the dynasties hereabout then demarcated. In
the Parliament of 1585, convened by Perrot, and
for the first time admitting Irish chiefs to the
268 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
councils of their country's legislation, this Sept was
represented by Conla, son of Connor, son of Luigne
Mac Geoghegan. In the following year, when con-
fiscations were instituted as a resource for support-
ing the necessities of Government, Inquisitions were
taken as to the possessions of this family, the death
of whose tanist, the aforesaid Conla, in the same
year, is commemorated by the Four Masters, as that
" there was not, since the times of old, a man of the
race of Fiacha who was more lamented than he." At
the close of this century, the ' crud^ poet, Edmund
Spenser, in his " View of the State of Ireland," ear-
nestly recommended that, " for the safeguard of the
country, and keeping under all sudden upstarts that
shall seek to trouble the peace, garrisons should be
established at sundry places outside the Pale, and
particularly one " at the foot of OflFaley, to curb the
O'Connors, O'Mulloys, MacCoghlans, MacGeoghegans,
and all those Irish natives bordering thereabouts."
In the year 1600, the memorable Irish hero, Hugh
O'Neill, in his progress southward, under pretext of a
pilgrimage to Holycross, but really to organize for the
reception of the expected Spanish invasion of Mun-
ster, after passing through the barony of Delvin,
" marched thence to the gates of Athlone, and along
the southern side of Clan-Colman, and Kinel-Fiacha
(MacGeoghegan's) and into Fearcall (O'Mulloy's,)
where he encamped for nine nights," confirming
friendships with the surrounding chiefs. When, soon
after, the war of Munster broke out. Captain Richard
dongan's dragoons. 269
Mac Geoghegan, "a chief of Westmeath/' was, for his
distinguished valour, entrusted by O'Sullivan with the
custody and care of the castle of Dunboy, which he
gallantly defended until mortally wounded. He was
carried down into the vaults in a dying state, where,
learning that it was the intention of the garrison un-
der their necessity to surrender, he made a feeble
effort to stagger over to a barrel of gunpowder there
deposited, with a resolution, by setting fire to it, to
blow up the English then in the castle, even with a
sacrifice of his own friends ; but the former, rushing
down at the crisis, arrested his arm and stabbed him
to death,"
In the confiscations consequent upon the insurrec-
tion of 1641, Rosse, Laurence, and Dermott Mac
Geoghegan were forfeiting proprietors within the
County of Kildare, as was Thomas in the County of
Meath ; while, in the old territory of Kinaleigh,
Arthur Mac Geoghegan lost all that then remained of
his ancestors' immemorial inheritance there — little
more, at that time, than 1,500 acres, (including
Castletown-Mac Geoghegan). His wife, one of the no-
ble Sept of Mac Coghlan, having given protection to
some of Cromwell's soldiers, received from the usurp-
ing powers a transplantation grant in the County of
Galway, of Bennowen, part of the OTlaherty's terri-
tory ; and through her second son, Edward, a junior
branch of the Mac G^oghegans has been continued
to the present day in Connaught ; though in its two
last generations this line has adopted the surname of
270 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
O'Neill, as sounding more of Milesian royalty. Nine
hundred acres of Arthur's forfeiture in Kinaleigh
having been claimed by Edward Mac Geoghegan, as
a remainder under settlements, were allowed to
him, and a portion of the residue was granted to
Sir William Petty (ancestor of the Marquis of Lans-
downe), the great compiler of the Down Survey. This
Edward obtained further savings of his rights in other
lands within the County of We^tmeath, on decrees
of innocence, but died without issue. In the Assem-
bly of Confederate Catholics at Kilkenny in 1647,
sat, amongst the Spiritual Peers, Doctor Anthony
Mac Geoghegan ; while of the Commons were Conly
and Charles Mac Geoghegan of Donore, Edward Mac
Geoghegan of Tyroterin, and Richard Mac Geogh-
egan of Moycashell, all within the old inheritance of
Kinel-Fiacha. The first named, Conly Mac Geogh-
egan, was one of the seven sons of Hugh Buy Mac
Geoghegan, by Ellen, daughter of Walter Tyrrell of
Clonmoyle, County of Westmeath, and is especially
included in the declaration of Eoyal gratitude of the
Act of Settlement, which further restored him to his
principal seat of Donore, and 2,000 acres of land. The
adjacent Borough of Eilbeggan was, in King James's
Parliament of 1689, represented by Bryan Geoghegan
of Donore, and Charles Geoghegan of Syonan.
On this Army List, besides the above Major Conly
and Comet James of the present Regiment, Charles
and Conn Geoghegan were Captains in Colonel Simon
Luttrell's Dragoons ; another Charles was a Lieutenant
dongan's dragoons. 271
in that of Colonel Francis Carroll ; Anthony Geoghegan
was a Captain in Colonel John Hamilton's Infantry,
and Garret Geoghegan was appointed Major of Colo-
nel Edward Butler's, after the forming of this List.
When Lord Dongan was killed, and the Lieutenant-
Colonel Francis Carroll had obtained a separate
Regiment of Dragoons, it would seem that Major
Conly Geoghegan succeeded to the Colonelcy of this,
hence then styled 'Geoghegan's Regiment,' "and from
which," says O'Conor, " many soldiers were after-
wards brought over to William's party, "by the influ-
ence of oflScers, who sought favour from the govern-
ment by corrupting their soldiers."* Previous to this
dereliction, however, when, in May, 1691, Captain
Underhill, at the head of a Williamite party, engaged
an Irish detachment, and killed their Captain,
Geoghegan, he was "the next day set upon by another
party of the Irish, commanded by Colonel Geoghegan,
and was obliged to make his retreat."f
The Inquisitions of 1691 contain the Outlawries of
Peter Mac Thomas Geoghegan, and William and Mori-
ertagh Mac Peter (Jeoghegan of Newtown, County of
Westmeath ; Hugh Ban Geoghegan of Carrymare,
Do. ; Hugo Mac Eedagh Geoghegan of Loughar-
laghnought, Edward his son, Hugh Fitz-Conly Buy
Geoghegan of Laragh ; Bryan Geoghegan of Donore ;
Charles, Con, James and Anthony Geoghegan of
Syonan, all in Westmeath ; Bryan Geoghegan of
Ballyduflfe, and Eugene of Ballyhecnock, in the
* O'Conor's Military Memoirs, p. 190.
f Story's Impartial History, part 2, p. 79.
272 KLVG James's irish army list.
King's County, with James Geoghegan of Granard,
County of Longford. Of these, Bryan of Donore,
styled Colonel Bryan, was adjudged within the Arti-
cles of Limerick ; while in 1700 the warrant issued
for a pardon to Edward Geoghegan of Castletown for
the reasons, as stated in his petition, "that he had never
borne any employment civil or military under the
late King James ; but, after the battle of the Boyne,
put himself under King William's protection at his
own house, until he was fallen upon by a party of
Captain Pointz's soldiers, by whom he was shot
through the body, stripped of all his substance, and
both himself and his family most inhumanly and bar-
barously used : by which means he was forced
into the enemy's quarters for security of his life, and
that on this account only was he outlawed. That on
the capitulation of Limerick he came to Dublin, and
was put in possession of his estate according to the
Articles ; and that he had always showed great kind-
ness to his Protestant neighbours." He therefore
prayed a reversal of his Outlawry and a pardon ; and
the Privy Council, on the Attorney-General's Report,
having certified in his favour, and the executors of
Colonel Wolsely, deceased, (who in his lifetime had op-
posed said Edward's prayer,) offering no opposition,
his full pardon was ordered to be made out.*
The claims preferred against the Geoghegan confisca-
tions in 1700 were, — Matthew Geoghegan for a charge
affecting Westmeath lands of said Edward Geoghegan
♦ Harris's MSS. Dub. Soc. v. 10, p. 304.
dongan's dragoons. 273
in the Barony of Rathconrath, allowed. Mary
Geoghegan for her jointure off same, also allowed.
Edward, Thomas and James Greoghegan, the sons of
said Edward, claimed estates tail therein respectively
under marriage articles of 1684, disallowed. While
Anne, the widow of Conly Geoghegan, sought a small
jointure and arrears as charges on the King's County
estate of Charles Geoghegan ; and Mary, his widow,
sought her jointure to the like amount : both which
claims were allowed.
In 1728, Arthur Geoghegan married Susanna,
daughter of William Stafford of Blatherwick, and
widow of Henry O'Brien of the Inchiquin line,
whereupon said Arthur assumed the name of Staf-
ford, and has transmitted it to his descendants.
In 1745, Sir Thomas Geoghegan of Toulouse,
an Officer in Lally's Regiment, was taken prisoner
at Carlisle, but, pleading that he was a French
subject, he was released.* In two years after, he was
killed at the battle of Lauffield, near Maestricht;f
while Alexander Geoghegan, having been taken at the
memorable battle of Culloden, executed with many
others an article herein elsewhere more fiilly alluded
to, engaging themselves on parole not to pass out of
Inverness without the licence of the Duke of Cum-
berland. Subsequently, the Abbe Jaques Mac
Geoghegan, residing in France, published in 1758
a very interesting History of Ireland in the French
language.
♦ Gent. Mag., vol. 16, p. 24. f Wem, vol. 18, p. 377
T
274 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM ARCHBOLD.
This name, of Danish origin, is traceable in Ireland
from the eariiest period of existing records ; more
especially in the annals of Wicklow. Henry the
Fourth, in the first year of his reign, constituted
William Archbold Constable of the important Castle
of Mackinnegan within that territory, with a salary
of 100 marks in times of peace, and of £80 during
war ; for the due performance of which trust, four of
his sept and vicinage became sureties to the Crown.*
Another William Archbold had been a few years
previously appointed a Baron of the Irish Exchequer,
while, in ecclesiastical rank, Richard Archbold was in
1491 elected Prior of the noble mitred House of
Eilmainham.
In 1610, the King's letter issued for receiving a
surrender from Patrick Archbold of Kendlestown,
County of Wicklow, with the state policy of re-grant-
ing his estates to him on payment of a fine, and on
holding same thenceforth by Knight's service.f A
very long letter of the 31st March, 1628, from King
Charles the First to Viscount Falkland, then Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland, directs a Commission of In-
quiry to be held respecting all the manors, castles,
estates, &c. of which the aforesaid Patrick Archbold
died seised in Wicklow and Dublin Counties ; with
authority and instructions for conveying them to the
♦ Rot. Pat. 1 Hen. IV. t Patent Roll in Cane. Hib.
dongan's dragoons. 275
Earl of Heath in fee, together with Letters Patent for
markets, fairs, tarirpits, a Court Baron and Court
Leet, in Great and Little Bree. This letter was
afterwards recalled for a substituted grant of said pre-
mises to (Jeorge Kirke, Esq., Groom of the Bedcham-
ber ; with specific directions that ihe Earl should not
make use of the preceding Letter.
The Attainders of 1642 exhibit Inquisitions on
Christopher and William Archbold of Timolin, Kich-
ard of Flemingstown, and James of Crookstown, all in
the County of Kildare. William, Roland, and Ed-
mund Archbold of Cloghran-Swords, County of Dub-
lin ; Robert, James, and Henry Archbold of Tuck-
myne. County of Wicklow ; Christopher of Skidow,
and Nicholas of Carrowkeel, County of Dublin; Theo-
bald of Rathbran, Edward of Stagonell, Thomas of
Wicklow, George of Glancormuck, Edward and Owen
Archbold of Kilmurry, Gerald of Brea and James of
Ballykea, all in the County of Wicklow.
On this Army List, besides the six officers of the
present Regiment, Christopher Archbold was an En-
sign in the King's Own Foot, and Bernard Archbold a
Lieutenant in Sir Michael Creagh's. An Ensign
Archbold was, at the commencement of the campaign,
taken prisoner at Deny.
In the Parliament of 1689, William Archbold, the
Captain in this Regiment, was one of the Represen-
tatives of the Borough of Athy. During the siege of
Limerick, in August, 1691, the fine Castle of Carrig-
ogunnel near that City, " whose garrison was one
T 2
276 KING James's irish army list.
hundred and thirty men with two Captains, com*
manded by one Archbold, surrendered upon mercy,
and the Prisoners were immediately put into the
provost's custody." The Attainders of 1691 in-
clude Nicholas, John, and Francis Archbold of
Ballymalee, County of Westmeath ; Simon of Dublin,
Pierce of Carysfort, County of Wicklow ; the above
Captain, by the description of Captain William of
Athy, County of Kildare ; James of Brumgagt,
County of Carlow ; William of Kilkenny, merchant ^
with Walter, Pierce, Thomas, and Richard Archbold
of Cullen, County of Kildare. The latter, styled
Captain Richard, seems identical with either of tl^
Kichards in this Regiment, and was held to be within
the Articles of Limerick. At the Court of Claims,
Robert Archbold sought an estate tail in the County
Kildare lands, forfeited by Captain William his father,
to whom they had been on a former occasion assured
by a Decree of Innocence. — A James Archbold sou^t
and was allowed a chattel leasehold in Kilmacndd,
County of Dublin, the private estate (i. e. of the
Duke of York); while a John Archbold claimed,
under a deed of 1671, an estate for lives in lands in
the Counties of Dublin and Kildare, forfeited by the
Earl of Tyrconnel, but his petition was disallowed.
dongan's dragoons. 277
CAPTAIN LORD KINGSLAND.
The family of Bamewall has been heretofore noticed
under Lord Trimleston, who was a Captain in Lord
Gahnoy's Regiment of Horse.
John Bamewall, ancestor of this nobleman in the
direct line, was Sheriff of Meath in 1433. After the
rout of the Boyne this Lord went to Limerick, where
he continued until its surrender. Pending the Treaty,
he was one of the hostages for the performance
thereof on the part of the Irish army.* Being com-
prised within the Articles, he obtained a reversal of
his Outlawry, but was not suffered to take his seat in
the House of Peers ; and, on his refusing to subscribe
the required Declaration, he was ordered to withdraw ;
he and his brother thereupon followed the fortunes of
the banished James. The former had a Commission
under the Duke of Berwick, and fell in action against
the Germans in 1692 ; whereupon his brother,
returning from Flanders to Ireland, recovered the
family estates and was summoned to Parliament, but
he too declined the honor with the oaths. He was at-
tainted by three Inquisitions, one taken in the
County of Dublin, another in the City, and a third in
the County of Meath. His son Joseph was also at-
tainted.
♦ D' Alton's History of the Co. Dublin, p. 310.
278 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
. CAPTAIN RICHAKD BELLEW.
The name of Bellew will be fully treated of at Lord
Belle w's Infantry Regiment. Of this officer it may
he here said that he was the second son of that Lord,
and early distinguished himself in supporting Edng
James's cause. When Walter Nugent, who succeeded
Lord Dougan in the command of this Regiment, fell
at Aughrim, as before related, Richard Bellew,
although then only twenty years of age, was appointed
to succeed him ; and, on the termination of the war,
he brought his forces with him to France, where they
ranked as the ^King of England*s Dismounted Dra-
goons.' There however he took umbrage, as Brigadier
Thomas Maxwell was placed over his head, which he
thought an unmerited slight. Returning to Ireland in
1694, on the decease of his elder brother Walter, the
second Lord Bellew, he became the third Baron ; and,
marrying a daughter of Lord Brudenell with a large
fortune, conformed to the Established Church in 1 705,
sat in the House of Peers in 1707, and died in 1714,
leaving John, the fourth Lord Bellew, his successor ;
at whose death at Lisle, in 1770, this title became
extinct.*
CAPTAIN JAMES CARROLL.
The Sept of O'CarroU was early established in Louth,
* O'Callaghairs Brigades, v. 1, p. 156.
dongan's dragoons. 279
being there popularly styled Princes of Orgiel. Pre-
vious to the English invasion, immediately after the
great Synod of Mellefont in 1152, the Four Masters
record the expulsion of their Chief from that country,
of which he had been the acknowledged Lord, from
Drogheda to Asigh in the County of Meath. These
annalists however notice O'Carrols as Chiefs of Orgiel
down to the year 1193 ; and it is especially recorded
that when, in 1166, on the eve of Strongbow's in-
vasion of Ireland, Roderic O'Conor, then King of this
country, seeking to ascertain the feelings of allegiance
towards himself, encamped with an army hereabout,
Donogh O'Carroll with the other chiefs of Louth came
into his tent, delivered hostages for their fealty, and
received in return, as related in the ' Annals of Inis-
fallen,' a present of two hundred and forty beeves.
O'Carrolls were, at that time and previously, also
settled in a territory of Tipperary, from them called
Ely-O'CarroU ; the Masters record the death of Am-
ergin O'CarroD, Lord of Ely, in 1033. This inhe-
ritance comprised the present Barony of Lower Or-
mond, with that of Clonlisk and part of Ballybritt in
the King's County, and to the Slieve Bloom Moun-
tains in the Queen's. Their chief castle was at Birr.
The name was also one of power and possession in
the Counties of Cavan and Leitrim.
In 1168 died O'Carroll, Bishop of Ross, in
the County of Cork. In 1171, Morrough O'CarroU,
Lord of Orgiel, joined Roderick O'Conor, the last
native King of Ireland, in the ineffective siege of
280 KING James's irish army list.
Dublin, then occupied by Dennott Mac Murrough
and the English invaders. In 1178, he made a gal-
lant and successful attack upon De Courcy ; and dying
in 1189, was interred in the noble Abbey which he
had founded for Cistercians at Mellefont. In 1184,
Maolisa O'Carroll was Primate of Armagh, and in
1327, John O'CarroU succeeded to the Archbishopric
of Cashel ; as did Thomas O'Carroll to that of Tuam
in 1349. In 1532, the Four Masters commemorate
the death of Maolruana O'Carrol, the distinguished
Chief of Munster, ' the golden pillar of the Elyans.'
His son, Ferganainim 0*Carrol, being the tanist of
Ely, surrendered its possessions to Edward the Sixth,
who restored it to him on English tenure, with the
addition of the dignity of Baron of Ely for his life.
Perrot's Parliament of 1585 was attended, amongst
other Irish Chiefs, by 'O'Carroll of Ely,' whom the same
Annalists describe as "Calvach, son of William
Odher, son of Ferganainim, son of Maolruana, son of
John." In 1605, Sir Henry Broncar, Knight, Presi-
dent of Munster, had a grant of (inter alia) a castle
and lands in the County of Tipperary, parcel of the
estate of Teigue O'Carroll attainted.
A funeral entry of 1630, in the Office of Arms,
Dublin, records the death, on 15th August in this
year, of William O'CaiToll ofCouloge, King's County,
(son and heir of Donough ni Kelly O'CarroU, son and
heir of Ony, son and heir of Donogh Ballagh O'Carroll
of same place,) where said William died and was
interred. He had married Honora, daughter of John
dongan's dragoons. 281
Meagher of Clame, County of Tipperary ; by whom he
had six sons, 1, Donogh, who married Katherine,
daughter of Walter Bourke of Borrisoleigh, County of
Tipperary ; 2, Keadagh, who married Amy, daughter
of Roger OTlaherty of Lomelonny, King's County ;
3, John, who married Joanna, daughter of William
O'Carroll of Moderenny, County of Tipperary ;
4, Teigue, married to Grany, daughter of Ony O'Car-
roll of Ely-O'CarroU ; 5, Charles, as yet unmarried ;
and 6, Ony, also unmarried. About the time of the
above entry, a Donogh O'Carroll, according to an an-
cient manuscript forwarded in aid of this work, mar-
ried the daughter of O'Kennedy by Margaret
O'Bryan Arra, which Margaret was the daughter of
O'CarroU Ely. By her he is said to have had thirty
sons, all of whom he presented, in one troop of Horse,
and accoutred in habiliments of war, to the Earl of
Ormonde, with proffers of all his and their assistance
in the Royal cause. Most of these sons, it is added,
died in foreign lands, having followed the wanderings
of the Stuarts. One, Daniel, remaining in Ireland,
was fether of John, who at the tender age of five
years was transplanted into Connaught by Cromwell.
He married Margaret, daughter of O'Connor, Sligo,
(by Margaret, daughter of Lord Athenry,) and from
that union sprang Sir Daniel O'CarroU, who, some
short time previous to this campaign, was created by
the Eong of Spain a Knight of the military order of
St. Jago, 'for singular services done for that Monarch
in time of war.' He left Spain however in disgust.
282 KING James's irish army list.
and, entering into Queen Anne's army, was made
Colonel of a Regiment of Horse, and knighted. He
married Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Sir Thomas
Jervis of the ' County of Southampton,' by his first
wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Gilbert Clark of Chy-
liothe in Derbyshire.
To return to the line and locality of Ely. Amongst
the active measures concerted by James the First for
reducing Ireland, a Commission was appointed " for
ascertaining the bounds and limits of O'CarroU's
Country, commonly called Ely O'CarroU." In the
grants that ensued on its plantation, the chief portion,
including Birr and its appanages, was assigned to
Laurence, brother of Sir William Parsons, the Sur-
veyor-General ; and, on the breaking out of the war of
1641, William Parsons was made Governor of Ely-
O'CarroU. Of this Sept and district of O'Carroll
was the above Captain James Carroll, whose commis-
sion to the Captaincy bears date on the 30th of July,
1689, thereby suggesting that the present Army List
was drawn up subsequent thereto ; for previously
James Carroll was but a Cornet in this Kegiment, as
of the troop of Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Carroll, by
Commission of the 10th November, 1688, from Tyr-
connel. That of 1689 was signed by the King at the
Castle of Dublin, and countersigned by Lord Melfort ;
but, in the confusion of the time, not entered in the
Office of the Muster-Master-General until the 22nd of
November following. Accoixlingly, on this List that
dongan's dragoons. 283
especial Cometcy is stated as filled by Cormack
*Eggan'[Egaii].
Besides this Captain James Carroll, another James,
and William Carroll, Lieutenants in this Segiment,
there appear on the Army List, in Lord Galmoy's In-
fantry, John Carroll a Captain, William Carroll
a Lieutenant, and Daniel and Laurence Carroll,
Ensigns. In the Earl of Westmeath's Foot,
Patrick Carroll an Ensign, as was Nicholas Carroll
in Sir Michael Creagh's. In Colonel Heward
Oxburgh's, Anthony Carroll a Captain, a second
Anthony his Lieutenant, and a James Carroll an En-
sign. In Lord Galmoy's Horse, Charles Carroll
was appointed (after the date of this List) second
Lieutenant-Colonel ; while Francis Carroll, a Lieute-
nant-Colonel here, had afterwards the command of a
Regiment of Dragoons, and to him, in conformity
with the proposed arrangement of these Illustrations,
that of the O'Carrolls should in strictness be referred ;
but the aid of Manuscripts which Mr. Davis Carroll
Dempster volunteered for this work, with a very an-
cient pedigree which establishes his maternal descent
from this Captain James, who was himself descended
from the O'Carroll of Ely, well justifies anticipating
the O'Carroll notices here. One of the Carrolls
named Anthony, who are mentioned above as in
Colonel Oxburgh's Infantry, appears to have been the
active popular leader, ' Long Anthony Carroll,' who,
according to Story, {Impartial History^ Part II. p.
69) contrived an ambuscade, by which, in April,
284 KING James's irish army list.
1691, a Captain Palliser, Lieutenant Armstrong, and
a party of sixty firelocks, were taken prisoners near
Birr. " Lieutenant Armstrong paid money to be
released ; Captain Palliser made his escape in the
beginning of June from Limerick, but the poor men
were kept prisoners till the surrender of that City."*
On the 29th October, 1691, the Officer at present
under consideration, being then * Major' James
Carroll, had a pass from King William's Commander-
in-Chief, as one "entitled to the benefit of the
Capitulation, and desirous of returning home to his
habitation in the County of Tipperary ; " and all
Officers, civil and military, were thereby directed " to
permit the said James, ydth his family and ser-
vants, horses, swords, pistols, and goods whatsoever,
to pass f5peely from the City of 'Lymerick ' to his habi-
tation aforesaid, to look after his concerns, and into
all such parts of the Kingdom where his lawful occa-
sions will require, without giving him any trouble or
hindrance."
Of the early brigaded French Regiment styled
' the King's Regiment of Dismounted Dragoons,'
Turenne O'Carroll was Lieutenant-Colonel, and was
killed at the battle of Marsiglia in 1693 ;f while at
the battle of the Bridge of the Retorto, in 1705,
Colonel O'Carroll of Galmoy's Brigade signally distin-
guished himself In 1743, Comet O'Carroll was
wounded at Dettingen, as was Lieutenant Carroll of
* Story's Impart. Hist, part 2, p. 69.
I O'Conors Militiiry Memoirs, pp. 198, 221.
doxgan's dragoons. 285
Berwick's Regiment at Ypres in 1745 ; and in two
years after, Major Carroll, also of Berwick's (possibly
the same who was wounded in 1745) supported the
credit of his name in the engagement at Lauffield
village near Maestricht, as did not less in his station
Lieutenant Carroll of Dillon's Brigade.
A commission from King Louis, dated at Ver-
sailles, 5th September, 1756, appointing Matthias
Carroll to an Ensigncy in Berwick's Brigade, vacant
by the promotion of William Cruise to a Lieutenancy,
is amongst the family papers of Mr. D. Carroll
Dempster, and suggests that he was of Mr. Demp-
ster's kindred. This family also claim affinity with
Charles Carroll of Carrolton, who signed the memo-
rable Declaration of American Independence, and who,
as far as present materials suggest, was the uncle of
John, the grandfather of Mr. Carroll Dempster.
LIEUTENANT JOHN HURLY.
According to the evidence of the ancient annals, the
Books of Leacan and Ballymote, &c. the O'Hurley,
O'Hierlehy, or Hurly was a Dalcassian Sept derived
from the same stock as that of the O'Briens of
Thomond ; each springing ftx)m a lineal descendant
of Cormac Cas, son of Oiliol OUum, who was King of
Munster in the third century. Their territory ex-
tended on the borders of Tipperary adjoining the
Limerick district of the O'Briens, and was latterly
286 KLVG James's irish army list.
known by the name of Knocklong in the Barony of
Coshlea, County of Limerick. Within it was a
Castle, for centuries the residence of the Chief. Its
ruins still remain, and from it branched off others of
this Sept in the Counties of Cork and Kerry.
It is true that the surname Hurle or Hurley, with
the Norman prefix of * de,' is found at an early period
in English local records, even from the time of
Edward the First, but a paramount authority of the
Irish Annalists shows the long previous existence of
the Milesian O'Hurly.
In reference to an era more within the scope of
these illustrations, Thomas Urley, alias Ourhilly,
Bachelor of Canon Law, afterwards Bishop of Emly,
being a recognised native Irishman, sued out in 1502
a licence entitling him to use the English tongue and
law.* In a venerable pedigree, of forty-one unbroken
generations, preserved by the present representative
of the family of Knocklong, occurs the name of Der-
mod, son of Teigue O'Hurly, described as the Chief
' living at the Oakwoods,' about the middle of the six-
teenth century. His daughter Juliana, according to
Lodge,f was married to Edmund Oge de Courcy, by
whom she was mother of John the eighteenth Baron
of Kinsale ; whose only daughter EUen de Courcy
became the wife of Randal Hurley of Ballinacarrig ;
while his son, Randal Hurley the younger, married
the widow of Gerald the nineteenth Lord of Kinsale.l
♦ Rot. Pat. in Cane. Hib.
t Peerage, vol. 6, p. 151. X Idem, p. 154.
doxgan's dragoons. 287
The ensuing annals of this family afford strong evi-
dence of the loose spirit in which, after the secession
from Rome, the dignities of the Established Church were
filled in Ireland. In 1543, King Henry presented
Donogh Ryan, chaplain, to the Deanery of the Cathe-
dral of Emly, "vacant, inasmuch as William Mc Bryen
and William O'Hurly, the present incumbents, hold
the same by the authority of the Bishop of Rome." In
1609, King James presented Edmund Hurly, ' not-
withstanding his minority and defect of clerical
orders,' to the Chancellorship of that Cathedral, with
a corps of vicarages united ; and in the same year his
Majesty presented Randal Hurley, under similar dis-
qualifications, to the Chantorship thereof.*
In 1563, Thomas O'Herlihey, being Bishop of Ross,
(it would seem on the Pope's appointment) assisted at
the Council of Trent. He died in 1579, and was in-
terred in the Abbey of Kilcrea. In 1583, Dermott
O'Hurley, Archbishop of Cashel, suffered martyrdom
in Dublin ; and was buried in St. Kevin's Church,
where his tomb became celebrated, says De Burgo,f
for miracles.
In the ConcUiation Parliament, convened two
years afterwards by Sir John Perrot, Thomas Hur-
ley of Knocklong represented the Borough of Kilmal-
lock. He was father of Maurice of Knocklong, who,
in 1601, "for his dutiful affection and good dispo-
sition towards her Majesty's service in Munster, and
* Patent Bolls, Jac. I.
t Hibemia DominicaDa, p. 601.
288 KING James's irisu army list.
considering that for the good of the country and
daily annoyance of the rebels he hath been at such
great charge of ' wardening' the Castle of ' Knock-
longy' during the rebellion in Munster," obtained a
patent for a weekly market and fair twice a year at
that locality. It was also ordered in the patent that
certain lands of said Maurice, which he alleged were
of ancient freedom, should, if proved on inquiry to be
so, be thenceforth exempted from cesses and exac-
tions ; and Knocklong was proved to be, with other
lands, within the privilege. In 1632, this Maurice
erected in the Cathedral of Emly a fine marble
monument to the memory of his two wives, whom he
had survived. His will, dated in 1634, is registered
in the Prerogative Court. By his first wife, Grania
Hogan, he left two sons. Sir Thomas, his successor,
and John Hurly. The former married Johanna,
daughter of John Browne of Camus, by Catherine,
daughter of Dermot O'Ryan of SoUoghode, County of
Tipperary ; by whom he had Sir Maurice, mentioned
hereafter, and another John, with four daughters :
1st, Catherine, married to Pierce, Lord Dunboyne ;
2nd, Anne, to Daniel O'Ryan of SoUoghode; 3rd,
Grace, to Walter Bourke ; and 4th, Eleanor, to David
Barry of Kahinisky, father of Edmund Barry, Queen
Anne's foster-father. In 1638, James O'Hurly was
constituted Bishop of Emly.
The Outlawries in 1642 present the names of Ran-
dle Hurley and Randle Hurley Oge of Ballynacarrig,
William Hurly of Ballenlearde and Lisgulby, County
dongan's dragoons. 289
of Cork ; Donough McDaniel Hurley of Bunnamun-
ney, Ellen Hurley of Gellagh-Iteragh, Donnell Oge
Hurly of Kilbrittain, James Hurly of Ballenbride,
Thomas O'Hurlehy, Donogh O'Hurlehy of Monita-
ginta and John O'Hurlehy of Ballybemy, all in the
County of Cork.
Sir Maurice Hurly, the grandson of Maurice the
testator of 1634, was one of the Confederate Catho-
lics at the Council of Kilkenny in 1647. He for-
feited largely by his adherence to Charles the First,
and his estates in the Counties of Limerick and
Tipperary were seized for Cromwell's adventurers ;
while he was himself transplanted into Connaught,
where he died in 1683, leaving Sir William, his
eldest son, hereafter alluded to. In his will of that
year. Sir Maurice, with ' a sweet remembrance of his
ancient inheritance,' directs, in regard to " the lands
that I have been dispossessed of, and to which I have
a just title, and now is defending in law, after the
recovery thereof, I leave and bequeath the same unto
my sons William and John Hurly, to be equally
divided between them for ever ; together with the
^maine' profits thereof:" and in a codicil he further
leaves to his said son John, " if my ancient estate
(i. e. Knocklong) be recovered, £200 per annum for
himself and his heirs for ever." This eldest son, how-
ever, who inherited the Baronetcy, could not recover
the ancient estate ; it is not, therefore, to be won-
dered that he attended King James's Parliament of
Dublin in 1689, as a Representative of the Borough
290 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
of Kilmallock; and early in August of the last year of
the campaign, when "the English army marched from
Carrick to Golden-bridge, three miles from Cashel,
Mr. John Grady of Corbray in the County of Clare,
arriving there with some intelligence of the posture
and strength of the Irish forces, stated that Lord
Brittas and Sir William Hurly were devastating the
country."* Again, in the subsequent engagement at
Thomond Gate, where 600 of the Irish perished,
besides 150 who were forc.ed over the bridge, Colo-
nels Skelton, Hurly ^ sixteen other officers, and above
one hundred privates were taken prisoners.f Dean
Story, in his ' Impartial History ^^ says that Colonel
Hurly was wounded in desperate conflict, of which
wounds he probably died, as, when on his attainder
his transplanted Galway estate became forfeited, it
appears that the claim of his infant heir. Sir John
Hurly, was put forward at Chichester House in
1700, as that of a minor, by Bryan O'Bryan, his
guardian (who had married his widowed mother) ;
an estate tail was claimed for him, and a jointure off
the Galway property for her; but both petitions were
dismist, and the estate was sold discharged thereof to
Thomas O'Connor, Sir Thomas Montgomery, and the
Hollow Swords Blades' Company. The ill-fated young
Baronet, smarting under the confiscations which had
left him landless, attempted to raise men for the ser-
vice of the Pretender, but was arrested in Dublin
about the year 1714 ; he, however, effected his escape.
♦ Fitzgerald's Limerick, vol. 2, p. 332. f Idem, p. 370.
dongan's dragoons. 291
-Others of this name attainted in 1691 were
Patrick Hurley of Dublin, Arthur of Grillagh,
County of Cork, and John of Lissene, County of
Sligo.
The Hurly Manuscript Pedigree Book, the in-
teresting document before referred to, suggests that Sir
Maurice, the transplantedHurly that died in 1683, had
a younger brother John, who was father of a Jdin the
younger (that may be identical with the Lieutenant
John at present under consideration), and of three
daughters ; 1, Grace, married to Captain Purdon of the
County of Clare ; 2, Anne, to John Bourke of Cahir-
moyle ; and 3, Ellen, to John Lacey the father by her
of John and Pierce Lacey ; all these males having
been companions in arms in this short but desperate
campaign. Another John Hurly was Lieutenant in
Lord Clare's Dragoons, but he had passed with them
to France ; yet a third John was a Lieutenant in the
Infantry Regiment of Colonel Charles O'Bryan, while
a John ' Hurlin' ranks as Comet in the Earl of Aber-
corn's Horse.
The aforesaid Genealogical Manuscript also relates
that a Dennis Hurly (descending from the brother of
Sir Thomas of Khocklong, Baronet), married Anne,
daughter of Robert Blenerhassett of Ballyseedy, Esq.,
by Avice Conway, daughter and co-heiress of Edward
Conway of Castle Conway ; and that he had issue by
said Anne five sons, Thomas, Charles, John, William,
and Dennis. The three last died without issue.
Thomas, the eldest, married Alice, daughter of his
u 2
21)2 KING James's irisii army list.
uncle, Thomas Blenerlmssett and Jane Darby, and he
had by her three daughters. Charles, the second son,
married Alice, sole daughter and heiress of Edmund
Fitzgerald of Morrineregan and Mary Ferriter, by
whom he had a daughter and two sons, Thomas and
John. Thomas married Letitia, daughter of Arthur
Browne of Ventry and Alice Hurly ; and had issue
one son, Charles the younger. John, the second son
of the above-named Charles, married Mary, daughter
of Edmund Conway and Christian Kice, by whom he
left issue two sons, Robert Conway Hurly, the eldest,
and John, and five daughters. John, the second
son of John by Mary Conway, married Anna-Maria-
Theresa, only daughter of Colonel Hugh Hill of
Mount-hill, County of Armagh, by Elizabeth Kirwan,
daughter of the distinguished scholar, Richard Kir-
wan of Creg Castle, County of Galway ; and he has
issue three sons ; Robert Conway married, and has
issue ; Hugh-Richard Kirwan, died s.P. and John
unmarried ; with four daughtx?rs.
LIEUTENANT JOHN MAPAS [alias Malpas].
Whex Edward Bruce, in the assertion of a claim to
the Crown of Ireland, fought in 1317 the battle of
Faughart, near Dundalk, John Malpas a native of
Drogheda, accomplished the most signal achievement
of that day ; he and Edward Bruce, writes Pembridge,
" fought hand to hand ; the valiant Scot fell before his
dongan's dragoons. 293
opponent ; who, himself pierced with mortal wounds,
sunk a victor in death on the corse of his prostrate
enemy." In 1326, Henry Mapase, his descendant, is
recorded as a landed proprietor in Louth. John
' Malpas ' was Mayor of Waterford in 1363.
Of those attainted in 1642, were Christopher Mapas
of Dublin, Merchant ; Nicholas Mapas of the same,
and Garret and Edward ' Mape ' of Maperath, County
of Meath ; the outlawed of 1691 were the above John
Mapas and Christopher Mapas, both described as of
Kochestown, County of Dublin; — an estate which does
not appear to have been divested, or it has otherwise
been restored to the old family ; for in 1789, on the
marriage of Catherine, the heiress of John ' Malpas,'
as he is called, with Lord Talbot de Malahide, the
uncle of the present Peer, this property passed to his
family.
CORNET JOHN BEGG.
This surname appears on Irish records from the com-
mencement of the fourteenth century. In 1359, John
* Beg ' was one of the influential proprietors of the
County of Dublin, who were selected to applot that
district for a state assessment; and a family of the
name appears subsequently settled at Saggard in said
County. In 1500, the Corporation of Galway voted
the freedom of their town to Richard Begg, on condi-
294 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
tion of his keeping an inn for victualling and lodging
strangers.* In the Outlawries of 1G42 appears the
name of Matthew Begg of Boranstown, County of
Dublin. On tliis Army List, another John Begg
ranks an Ensign in Sir Michael Creagh's Infiintiy ;
and the Attainders of 1691 comprise John Begg,
dcscribetl of Kilkellan, County of Meath ; James
'Beggs' of Cartown in the same County, Barnabas
Begg of Galway, Merchant ; and Thomas Begg of
same. At the Court of Claims in 1703, Joseph
Dowdall, and Ishma Begg his mother, (widow of Matt
Dowdall his father, who had married to her second
husband Ignatius Begg), claimed an estate tail for
him, an estate for life to Ishma, and a reversion to
the heirs of Ignatius in County of Westmeath lands,
forfeited by said Matt Dowdall. Pending the
proceedings at Chichester House, she became an idiot
and a fresh claim was made for her as Ishmay Begg,
alias Dowdall, by her son Ignatius Begg the younger,
for small incumbrances charged on the confiscations of
Sir Anthony MuUedy in the County of Meath.
QUARTER-MASTERS FRANCIS BOWERS AND
SIMON BRICE.
Neither of these surnames occurs again on this Army
List, nor at all on the Attainders of 1642 or 1691.
Ilardimair.s Galway, p. 199.
dongan's dragoons. 295
QUARTER.MASTER JAMES WOLVERSTON.
The Wolverstons were long located in Wicklow. At
the time that tract was erected into a County, James
Wolverston claimed Ballinecor and Ballycreery in
Cooleranill as his right and inheritance, by a convey-
ance from a native Sept.* He was also possessed of
^StaJorgan,' County of Dublin, under a lease from
Richard Plunket of Rathmore. Of those outlawed in
1642, were James Wolverston, described as of Rath-
bran and Frainstown, County of Wicklow ; Paul
Wolverston of the same locality, with Christopher
Wolverston of Newcastle in said County.
At the Assembly of Confederates in Kilkenny in
1647, Francis Wolverston, styled of Newtown, was of
the Commons. On the present Army List, besides
this James, Richard Wolverston was an Ensign in
Lord Galway's Regiment of Infantry. Neither of
these surnames appears in the Attainders of 1691, but
only that of a William ^Wolferston' of Knockedritt,
County of Wicklow. He, it appears, held these lands
under Sir Robert Kennedy, whose heir. Sir Richard
Kennedy, claimed and was allowed the reversion.
William forfeited also certain interests in King's
County lands, the former estate of Robert Wolvers-
ton.
* Inquis. 1605, in Cane. Hib.
29G KING James's irisii army list.
QUARTER-MASTER RICHARD NETTERVILLE.
The name of Netterville is tr.iceal»le on Rolls in the
Irish Chanceiy of such high antiquity, that the gene-
ral contents have ceased to be legible. In 1224,
Luke Netterville, Archbishop of Armagh, founded the
Dominican Friary in Drogheda ; in three years after
which he died, and was buried at the noble religious
house of Mellefont. In 1335, John Netterville was
summoned to attend John D'Arcy the Justiciary on
an expedition against Scotland. Some years after
which, Luke Netterville's seisin of Dowth, (long sub-
sequently the residence of this ennobled family) is re-
cognised on record,* while the right of presentation
to its Rectory was, on suit institut<2d, adjudged to the
English Priory of Lanthony. In 1559, Luke Netter-
ville of Dowth, theivtofore Chief Justice of the Com-
mon Pleas, was promoted to be Chief of the King's
Bench. In Sir John Perrot's Parliament of 1585,
Richard Nettenille was one of the Representatives of
the County of Dublin.
Immediately after the breaking out of the Insurrec-
tion of 1641, Lonls Netterville, Gormanston, Fingal,
and Trimleston addressed a letter to the Marquess
of Clanricarde, whereby they souglit earnestly to vin-
dicate 'the scope and purpose of their taking up
arms ;' and, while the letter is dated 23rd February,
1641, from the camp near Drogheda, it contains a
♦ D' Alton s Hist. Drogheda, v. 2, p. 432.
dongan's dragoons. 297
candid and explicit avowal that they had made com-
mon cause with O'Neill ; " and we now give your
Lordship to understand, that by God's assistance the
work is, by the help of our neighbours of Ulster, and
by our own endeavours, in a fair way; we having,
already in the field about Dublin and Drogheda about
12,000 able men, and more expected daily, for the
most part well armed ; and besides we can assure
ourselves of the good will and endeavours of the rest
of our Catholic countrymen."* Nicholas Netterville,
Lord Viscount Dowth, was consequently attainted in
1642,'; as were Luke Netterville of Corballis, and
Thomas Netterville of Black Castle, both in the
County of Dublin. At the Kilkenny Assembly of
1646, Viscount Netterville was one of the Temporal
Peers ; while, amongst the Commons, were Patrick
Netterville of Belfast, and Richard Netterville. This
Viscount was 'excepted from pardon for life and
estate' in Cromwell's Act of 1652, as was also Sir
John Netterville, Knight. The Act of Settlement,
however, of 1662, restored (after certain reprisals)
Lord Netterville and Luke Netterville of Corballis.
The Act of Explanation, 17 and 18 Car. 2, c. 2, sec.
97, reciting that whereas Nicholas Lord Netterville
had been adjudged by the Commissioners 'nocent,'
but his younger brothers and sisters had by decrees of
said Commissioners recovered remainders, expectant
upon his death without issue male, and also their por-
tions chargeable thereon ; it was thereby ordered
* D*Alton*8 Hist. Drogheda, v. 2, p. 243.
298 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST
/
that, two-thirds of his estates being reserved to the
adventurers applotted thereon, the remaining third
should be given back to the Viscount, and that he
should himself be restored in blood to all intents and
, purposes.
It is remarkable that of this historic name no other
member is noted in this Army List. Walker, however,
in his 'Siege of Derry,' (p. 60) makes mention of a
Lieutenant 'Netervil' as having been taken prisoner
on that occasion. The Viscount's name appears on
the Pension List of 1687-8, for £100 per annum.
He sat in the Parliament of 1689, and was attainted
in 1691, with James and Terence Netterville of
Dowth, Sir John Netterville, and William and
Nicholas Netterville of Cruise-rath, County of Meath.
The Inquisition held at Trim on the 13th January,
1699, on Viscount NetterviU, finds that he, "with
divers other armed traitors, and with banners dis-
played, levied war against the King and Queen ; that
he did service at the siege of Deny, in July, 1689,
where he was taken in battle; and that he afterwards
died." At the Court of Claims in 1703, a Nicholas
Netterville was a suitor for the benefit of a mortgage,
affecting lands forfeited by John Cheevers within the
Half Barony of Killian, County of Galway.
KING James's ibish army list.
299
REGIMENTS OF DRAGOONS.
Captaina.
The Colonel.
lieot-Colonel.
SIR NEILL O'NEILL'S.
ComtU.
Lieutenants.
Henry O'NeiU.
Quarter-Matters,
Major.
Nicholas Eostace. Chrutopher Eustace. Daniel Egan.
William BnUer. Richard Reddy. John Manning. Constant Kelly.
Jeffiy Fay. Christopher Pien. Thomas Darcy.
Mnrtogh McGninnis.
Ever McGninnis.
Charles Fitzgerald. Laurence DeUhunty.
Roland Savage. John Savage. Henry Savage.
Charles Mo Carty. Nicholas Williams.
COLONEL SIR NEILL O'NEILL.
It would detract from the glories of this great
Milesian name to attempt any summary of its annals
and achievements here. They alike abound on the
native chronicles and on those of later histories and
records.
In 1394, on the occasion of King Richard's first
visit to Ireland, O'Neill, Dynast of Ulster, and his
subordinate Chieftains, O'Hanlon, Mac Mahon, and
others, did homage and fealty to that Monarch at
300 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
Drogheda.* In 1520, when the Earl of Surrey came
over as Lord Lieutenant to Ireland, Con (sunyimed
Bocagh) O'Neill, who had by popular election suc-
ceeded his brother in the Principality of Ulster, in-
vaded Mcath with a large but undisciplined force :
Surrey hastened to encounter him, but O'Neill, awed
by his character and the well-known discipline of his
forces, retired before him, and sent letters to solicit
pardon and peace. In the October following. Royal
policy directed that O'Neill and certain other Irish
potentates should be knighted, and the King sent a
collar of gold to the former, ordering Surrey to
prevaO upon him to visit the Court, where Henry
hoped to introduce him to English habits.f A simi-
lar policy prompted James the First to take under his
especial care Con O'Neill, the son of the newly cre-
ated Earl of Tyrone ; and Royal disbursements appear
on the Pell Rolls of that time, as for "£51 for so
much money expended for the apparel, bedding, and
other necessaries, provided for the education and
bringing up of Con O'Neill ;" another "for £20 5s.
for his expenses one quarter, at Eton College," &c4
The Attainders of 1642 include James 'O'Neale' of
Feltrim, and Thomas Neale of Athy ; while, in the
Assembly of Confederate Catholics, four years after-
wards, sat Henry O'Neill of Kilboy, Phelim O'Neill of
Morly, and Turlough O'Neill of Ardgonnell. The
Declaration of Royal gratitude in 1662, as "for
♦ Daltons Drogheda, vol. 1, p. 122.
t Idem, vol. 2, p. 182. J Idem, p. 210.
O'NEILL'S DRAGOONS. 301
services beyond the seas," notices Con O'Neill of Ard-
gonnell, County of Armagh ; and Captain John
O'Neill of Carrick, County of Tipperary. In 1687,
Sir Bryan O'Neill was appointed a Justice of the
King's Bench ; at which time Sir Neill O'Neill raised
thb Regiment at his own expence.* Besides him and
Lieutenant Henry in his Regiment, there are on this
Army List four other O'Neills, Colonels of Infantry ;
viz. Cormuck O'Neill, Gordon O'Neill, Felix O'Neill,
and Henry O'Neill. The name further appears com-
missioned in other Regiments ; as, — in Sarsfield's
Horse, Daniel O'Neill was a Captain ; — in Lord Don-
gan's Dragoons, Cormuck and Daniel O'Neill were
Captains, and Arthur a Lieutenant ; — in the Earl of
Antrim's Infantry, Hugh O'Neill was a Captain, John,
Bryan, and a second John, Lieutenants, and Francis
and Turlough O'Neill were Ensigns. — In Lord
Bellew's, Henry and Hugh O'Neill were Captains ; —
in Colonel Cormuck O'Neill's, Felix, James, Bryan,
and Con O'Neill were Captains, Thomas and Henry,
Lieutenants, and Art O'Neill an Ensign.
" I am sending down," wrote King James to Gene-
ral Richard Hamilton before Deny, on the 10th of
May, 1689, the day after the meeting of his Parlia-
ment of Dublin, " Sir Neill O'Neill's Dragoons into
the Counties of Down and Antrim I think it ab-
solutely necessary you should not let any more men
come out of Deny, but for intelligence or some
extraordinary occasion ; for they may want provisions,
♦ O'Conor s Milit. Mem. p 195.
302 KING James's irish army list.
and would be glad to rid themselves of useless
mouths."* Accordingly, early in the campaign this
Regiment signalized itself in Down and Antrim, and
afterwards at the siege of Derry, where a Lieutenant
Con O'Neill was killed. In the Parliament of
1689, Constantine O'Neill was one of the Representa-
tives for the Borough of Armagh, as was Cormuck
O'Neill for the County of Antrim, Daniel O'Neill for
Lisbum, Toole O'Neill for Killileagh, Arthur O'NeOl of
Ballygawly for Dungannon, and Colonel Gordon O'Neill
for the County of Tyrone.
When Schomberg was reported to have sent detach-
ments to Sligo to command that country. King James
despatched Sir Neill O'NeOl's Dragoons, with Briga-
dier Sarsfield's and Henry Luttrell's Horse, and
Charles Moore's and O'Gara's Infantry, to prevent
their progress thither ; and the gallant conduct ot
Henry Luttrell on this occasion is before alluded to,
ante p. 191, by King James's biographer. This Regi-
ment did further and most eflFective service at the
Boyne, disputing the passing of the River at Slane by
the enemy's right wing, " till their cannon came up,
and then retiring in good order with the loss of only
five or six common men, their Colonel shot through
the thigh, (of which wound he died), and one officer
or two wounded.f According to the Duke of
Berwick's Memoir, this movement of Sir Neill O'Neill
was by King James's especial order ; who, " believing
♦ Manuscripts in T.C.D. (E. ii. 19).
t O'Callagban's Excid. Mac. p. 352.
O'NEILL'S DRAGOONS. 303
the enemy might march by their right up to Slane to
pass the river there, and endeavour to force the ford
at Old Bridge, sent for Sir Neill O'Neills Regiment of
Dragoons to Slane, with orders to defend that pass as
long as he could, without exposing his men to be cut
to pieces, and then either offer the King battle, or
march straight towards Dublin, which they might
easily have done, at least with a detached body of
Horse and Dragoons, being so much superior to the
King in them as well as in Foot."* His Regiment
accordingly " resisted for a whole hour the passage
of the English at Slane, though exposed to the fire of
a numerous artillery and the charges of cavalry greatly
their superiors in number."!
The Attainders of 1691 include of this name
Richard, Earl of Tyrone ; Bryan O'Neill of Dublin,
Baronet ; Henry, Gordon, Hugh, and Philip O'Neill,
also of Dublin ; Arthur of Ballygawley, County of
Tyrone ; Constantine of Armagh, Cormuck of Brook-
shane, County of Antrim ; Daniel of Belfast, Toole
of DrominwiUy, County of Down ; Arthur of Bally-
dufE^ King's County ; Brian of Ballinacor, County of
Wicklow ; Henry ^Neal' of Drogheda, clerk ; Daniel
Neal of Ballycamond, County of Carlow ; James
* Neel ' of Clonegal, Do.; Cam O'Neill of Loughmore,
County of Antrim ; Gordon O'Neill of Crea, County
of Tyrone ; Cormuck of Kilultagh, Felix and Michael
of Killellagh, County of Antrim ; and this Sir Neill
♦ Clarke's James II. vol. 2, p. 395.
t O'Conors Milit. Mem. p. 107.
304 KING James's irish army list.
O'Neill, described as also of said Killellagh ; Shane
O'Neill of Creevecamow, and Murtough of Tullylish,
County of Down ; John of Fallagh, Owen of Brenton,
Turlough, James, and Francis of Fintona, all in the
County of Tyrone ; Paul and Phelemy of Ballyma-
cuUy, Charies of Derrynoose, and Terence of Aghna-
grahan, all in the County of Armagh. At the Court
of Chichester House in 1700, claims were preferred
against the confiscations of Sir Neill O'Neill, Baronet,
by Dame Frances O'Neill his widow, for her jointure,
as charged by settlement of 1677, allowed. By
Cormuck O'Neill, as administrator of the Marchioness
of Antrim, for mortgages and judgments affecting his
estates, allowed By Rose O'Neill, one of his daugh-
ters, for her portion, dismist. There were three
other daughters of his, Mary, Elizabeth, and Anne, who
do not appear to have made any claims. Jane, Clare,
and Elizabeth O'Neill sought and were allowed their
portions off Mayo estates of Con O'Neill ; as did Alice
and Margaret, other daughters of Con by his wife
Honoria O'Neill, alias 'Mc Daniel,' and all their claims
were allowed, as charged by the will of said Con,
dated 10th of May, 1684. EUis O'Neill, alias
Mc Donnell, and Neile O'Neile claimed and were al-
lowed a leasehold affecting Mayo lands of Henry
O'Neile ; while a second Ellis O'Neill claimed, as
administratrix of John O'Neill, a charge on other
Mayo estates of Turlough O'Neill, but her petition was
dismist.
O'NEILL'S DRAGOONS. 305
CAPTAIN JEFFREY FAY.
A FAMILY of the name was settled in the County of
Westmeath, of which this JeflFry, styled in the Inqui-
sition of 1691 Galfred Ffay of Trumroe in that
County, Gentleman, was a member. Richard, Wil-
liam, Michael, and Edward Fay were also attainted,
and described as of the same house. George and John
Ffay of Derryneganahan and Thomas Ffay of Togher
were likewise outlawed in that County. There was
also in the North a Sept to which the Milesian 0 was
prefixed, and of which Morres O'Fay of Ballyloran
and Hugo OTay of Ballylanagh, County of Antrim,
were attainted in 1691.
CAPTAIN ROLAND SAVAGE.
This name is of early introduction into Ireland. In
1302, William, son of Alexander Savage, was one of
the Irish Magnates selected to attend Richard de
Burgo in the Scottish war. In eight years after,
Richard le Savage was one of those summoned to a
great Council convened at Kilkenny ; and, in 1335,
Robert Savage and John de Sauvage were of the Ulster
chiefs ordered to attend John Darcy the Justiciary in
the expedition against Scotland.* Pembridge in his
Annals records the death in 1360 of Sir Robert
* D' Alton's History of Drogheda, vol. 2, p. 83.
X
306 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
Savage of Ulster, ' an excellent soldier ;' he was buried
in the Dominican Friary of Deny. In 1375, Henry
Savage, Knight, was summoned to Parliament ; as he
was again in 1377 and 1381. In 1493, John
* Savage ' was Mayor of Dublin.
The Settlement of the family in the Ardes, County
of Down — or rather the recognition of their oc-
cupancy there in the time of Queen Elizabeth — is
fiilly set out in Harris's too brief History of that in-
teresting County. "The Family is reputed to be
above 400 years standing in Ireland,** writes William
Montgomery immediately after the Revolution ;
"They called themselves Lords of the Little Ardes, and
were men of great esteem, and had far larger estates
in the County of Antrim, than they have now in the
Ardes, which former they resigned to hold under the
Mc Donnell.* Besides the line long settled at Porta-
ferry, there was another not less ancient branch, the
Savages of Ardkeen Castle. This family is of good
account, and hath a second Castle called Scatrick,
(the oldest pile of this family as is said,) and thirteen
islands in Lough Coan ; both castles are tenable if
fortified and repaired. Of this family one cadet,
named Roland^ an officer in Queen Elizabeth's wars
against the Irish, hath, since King James's entry into
England, built the two Castles of Ballygalgat and
Kerkstone (being high square piles), and gave the
shore with lands adjoining unto two of his sons.^f
In 1614, Sir Arthur Savage, Knight and Privy
♦ Montgomery MS. p. 68. t Idem, p. 802.
o'neill's dragoons. 307
Councillor, (who had been previously distinguished in
the war in Munster) obtained a grant of various
castles, rectories, houses, mills, woods, lands, tithes,
&c. in the Counties of Cavan, Mayo, Galway,
Limerick, Tipperary, Kerry, Cork, Clare, Kildare,
Wicklow, Meath, Roscommon and Dublin, as well as
in the City of Dublin, The only individual of the
name attainted in 1642 was William Savage of Lusk.
In King James's new Charter of 1688 to Ar-
magh, Patrick Savage was one of the burgesses.
Besides this Captain Roland, there are in the Army
List, in Colonel Cormuck O'Neill's Infantry, Edmund
Savage a Lieutenant, and Henry Savage an Ensign.
Captain Roland represented Newry in King James's
Parliament, and, in the Inquisition for his Attainder,
was described as of Portaferry and Newry, in Down.
Within which County were also outlawed Patrick
and Henry Savage of Ballygalgat, Thomas and Hugh
of Dromode, James of Ballyspurge, Hugh of Bally-
darves, Lucas of Dunhunck, and John and James
Savage of Rocks.
In 1702, the Right Honourable Philip Savage,
Chancellor of the Exchequer in Ireland, purchased
various lands in the County of Carlow, which had
been the estates of John Baggott attainted ; as did
Patrick Savage of Portaferry part of the confiscations
of Captain Roland Savage, with "the fresh-wat^T
lough thereto belonging." The Hollow Swords Bladc^s'
Company also purchased his estate of Dromardin in
the Ardes. At the Court of Claims, Patrick Savage
X 2
308 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
a minor, sought and was in part allowed a remainder
in tail under settlements of 1685 in said Roland's
estates ; while Hugh Savage, as son and heir of John
Savage, was allowed a chiefly out of certain lands of
the same forfeiting proprietor ; as was another
Patrick Savage, to a certain extent, a mortgage
charged upon same ; and John Mc Cormick and
Dame Elizabeth Ponsonby claimed and were allowed
charges on other premises of Roland.
LIEUTENANT RICHARD REDDY.
The Inquisition, taken on his Attainder in 1691,
describes him as of Leighlin Bridge ; a William
R<5ddy, described as of Old Leighlin, was also then
outlawed.
CORNET JOHN MANNING.
The O'Mannings were a Sept more especially located
in the present Barony of Tyaquin, County of Galway,
where the Castle of Clogher was their chief residence.
This Cornet is however described, on the Inquisition
for his Outlawry, as of Lebeltstown, County of Kil-
kenny ; and, as a family of the name of 'Maynwaring^
was at this time and previously of influence and re-
spect in Kilkenny, it would seem that this officer's
O'Neill's dragoons. 309
surname may have been here corrupted from the
latter appellation.
CORNET CHRISTOPHER PIERS.
Besides Comet Piers, in this Regiment, Maurice
Piers was a Lieutenant, and Patrick ' Peirs ' an En-
sign in Lord Mountcashel's Infantry. Yet the
Attainders of 1691 do not mark oflf any of these per-
sons, but only others, viz. John and Turlogh Piers of
Calavennane, County of Clare ; while John Piers of
Wicklow is the single outlaw on those of 1641.
The name is however of record in Ireland from the
time of Edward the Third. In 1362, Thomas Piers
was Abbot of the venerable Religious House of Clon-
ard ; and when, in two centuries after, the dissolution
of these establishments was resolved upon. Sir Henry
Piers, Baronet, had a grant of the monasteries of
Corock, Gervaherin, and Puble in the County of
Tyrone, with their possessions ; while Captain Wil-
liam Piers had a lease of the once beautiful priory of
Tristernagh, with its ambit and possessions. His
title was afterwards converted into the fee ; the noble
Priory, however, has long since been disconsecrated to
domestic uses, and its extent and magnificence can
but be conjectured from the view in Grose's Antiqui-
ties of Ireland.
310 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
CORNET NICHOLAS WILLIAMS.
The name of Williams does not appear on the Attain-
ders of 1642, or on those of 1691. In Sir John
Perrot's Parliament of 1585, Thomas Williams was
one of the Representatives of the County of Mayo, as
was Edward Williams of the Borough of Philipstown.
Dr. Griffith Williams, born in Caernarvon in 1589,
succeeded to the see of Ossory in 1641, and died at
Kilkenny in 1672. Ilis Life is chronicled fully in
Ware's Bishops. In 1662, William Williams
represented the borough of Swords in Parliament,
and in 1675 he was SheriflFof the County of Dublin.
REGIMENTS OF DRAGOONS.
COLONEL DANIEL O'BRYAN'S, (LORD CLARE).
Captains. Lieutenants. Comets, Quarter- Mtuters.
The Colonel. Turlogh O'Brjan. Daniel 0*Brjan. James Nejlan.
James Phillips, David Bany. Thomas Fitzgerald. William Hawford.
Lieut-Colonel.
Francis Browne,
Major.
Florence Mac Na- John Horley. Martagh Hogan. James White.
man.
Redmond Magrath. John Ryan. Hngh Pcrrj. James Ryan.
Morres Fitzgerald. Morrongh 0' Bryan. Thomas Donnell. Christopher 0' Bryan
James Mc DanicU. Owen Cahane. Nicholas Archdeken. Edmund Bohilly.
Nicholas Bourke. Silvester Purdon. John BoniiLe. Gerald Fitzgerald.
John Fitzgerald. William Lysaght. William Neylan. Daniel MacNamara.
Roger Shaughuessy. Joseph Furlong. Laurence Dean. Dermott Sullivan.
Teigue O'Bryan. Patrick Hehir. Hugh Hogan. James O'Dca.
Thady Quin. Richard Bedford. Thomas Clanchy. Thomas Lee.
CLARE'S DRAGOONS. 311
COLONEL DANIEL O'BRTAN, LORD CLARE.
This is another of the kingly families of Ireland in
old times, whose achievements cannot be here com-
pressed. The Sept was one of the five of the Irishry,
who were by special grace early enfranchised, and
enabled to take benefit of the laws of England ; the
other four being O'Neill of Ulster, O'Melaghlin of
Meath, O'Conor of Connaught, and Mac Murrough of
Leinster.* In 1314, Edward the Second directed an
especial letter missive for aid on his Scottish expedi-
tion to Donogh O'Brian, 'Duci Hibemicoriim de
Thomond ;' and also to Murtagh O'Brien. As the de-
descendants of Brien Boru of immortal memory, this
race gave titular Kings to Thomond down to the
year 1543 ; when Murrough O'Brien, surrendering
his Captaincy and Principality to Henry the Eighth,
was created the first Earl of Thomond ; while at the
same time the politic monarch conferred the title of
Baron of Ibrackan upon his nephew, Donogh O'Brien,
on whom, upon his uncle's death, Edward the Sixth,
in 1552, conferred the EarlHom of Thomond, to be
enjoyed by him and his heirs male.
At the Supreme Council of Kilkenny in 1647, sat
in the Commons Conor O'Brien of Ballinacody, and
Dermot O'Brien of Dromore. In 1652, Cromwell's
* Act for Settling Ireland' excepted from ' pardon for
life and estate' Murrough O'Brien, Baron of Inchiquin,
* Davis's Hist. Rel. p. 46.
312 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
Dermot O'Brien of the County of Clare, and Murtogh
O'Brien of Arra, County of Tipperary. In 1663, the
Declaration of Royal gratitude for 'services beyond
the seas,' includes Captain Terence Bryan of Palace-
greny. County of Louth; and Captain Dermot
O'Brian of Carrickonguis, County of Cork ; while, by
the Act of Explanation, Daniel O'Bryan of Duogh,
County of Clare, was ordered to be restored to his
' Seat ' and 2,000 acres of his estates.
By an order of Lord Tyrconnel to Colonel John
Russell, dated 18th June, 1686, that officer was
directed to receive into his Regiment, and to rank
there on his respective companies, (iiiter alios)
Lieutenant Cornelius O'Bryan, Lieutenant Terence
O'Bryan, Ensign Turlogh O'Bryan, and Ensign Mau-
rice 'Bryan.'* In King James's Charter of 1687, &c.
Pierce Bryan was one of the Free Burgesses in that
to Carlow, and was also head of the municipal Roll of
Maryborough. Michael was one of the Aldermen in
that to Kilkenny. This Colonel, Lord Clare, and
Denis O'Bryan of Dough, Esq., were Burgesses in the
Charter to Ennis, as w^ Terence O'Bryan in that to
Navan, and Luke ' Bryan ' in the Charter to Ennis-
corthy. In the Parliament of Dublin (1689) sat,
amongst the Peers, O'Bryan, Earl of Thomond ('a
papist'); O'Bryan, Earl of Inchiquin, (a Protestant);
and O'Brien, this Viscount Clare : while in the Com-
mons David O'Brien was one of the Representatives of
the County of Clare, Alderman James * Bryan ' one of
* Singers Correspondence of Clarendon, v. 1, p. 459.
CLARES DRAGOONS. 313
those for the City of Kilkenny, as was Piers ' Bryan'
for the Borough of Maryborough.
This Army List has on Lord Clare's Regiment,
besides the Colonel, four others of the name of
O'Bryan : — Charles O'Bryan was Colonel of another
Regiment, (Infantry), in which Donogh O'Bryan was
Captain, and Teigue and a second Donogh were Lieu-
tenants ; Carberry ' Bryan ' was a Lieutenant in Col-
onel Robert Clifford's Dragoons ; Kennedy O'Bryan, a
Captain in Lord Mount Cashel's Infantry, in which
Walter Bryan was a Lieutenant. James and Lewis
* Bryan ' were Lieutenants, and Denis Bryan an
Ensign in the Earl of Tyrone's ; Michael * Bryan ' a
Captain in Colonel Thomas Butler's ; Thomas Bryan,
a Captain in Lord Kilmallock's, as was Donogh
O'Bryan in Major-General Boiseleau's ; Arthur and
Denis Bryan were Lieutenants in Sir Michael
Creagh's ; James Bryan a Captain in Lord Galmoy's
Horse; Murtagh Bryan in Sarsfield's. In that of
Colonel Hugh Sutherland, James Bryan was a
Captain, and Francis Bryan a Cornet ; while, lastly,
John Bryan was a Quarter-Master in Tyrconnel's.
One of these officers, styled Captain O'Bryan,
was killed at the siege of Derry, 28th June, 1689.*
In the August following, at the time of Schomberg's
landing, this Regiment was stationed in Munster.f
The history of this family has very peculiar inte-
rest, even within the limits prescribed for these Ulus-
* Walker's Siege of Derrj, p. 61.
t Clarke's James II. p. 872.
314 KING JAMES'S IRISU ARMY LIST.
trations. Daniel O'Bryan, the third and youngest son
of Cornelius O'Bryan, third Earl of Thomond, was
Styled of Moyarty and Carrigaholt. He did great
service and received many wounds in the wars of Ire-
land, for which he was knighted and rewarded with
considerable grants of lands in the County of Clare,
which he had represented in the Parliament of 1613.
Living to see the Restoration, he was created Viscount
of Clare in 1662, in consideration of his own and his
children's services, both at home and in foreign parts,
and, for the maintenance of that degree of honor, he
had restitution of his whole estate. His grandson
and namesake was the individual under present con-
sideration, the third Viscount Clare, who attended
King Charles in his exile, raised two Regiments of
Infantry for James the Second, and this 6f Dragoons,
which, from the facing of the uniform, was known by
the popular name of the Dragoons Buy (yellow). It
was raised at Carrigaholt, and being considered the
flower of James's army, was sent into Ulster at the
opening of the campaign, under the conduct of Sir
James Cotter, forming part of the numerous and well
appointed force of which Lord Mountcashel had
then the command ; but, on the 26th July, 1689,
those troops were encountered near Lisnaskea, in the
County of Fermanagh, by Captain Martin Armstrong,
with two troops of Horse and two companies of Foot,
who, "making a feint to attack with his horse, retired
as if in disorder, till he drew Lord Mountcashel's
forces into the ambuscade of his Foot, who, by an un-
CLARE'S DRAGOONS. 315
expected volley caused a great slaughter ; the Horse
at the same instant facing about, fell on with incredi-
ble force, and cut this brave Regiment almost to
pieces, very few escaping by flight.'^
This Colonel Lord Clare was of King James's Privy
Council from 1684, and Lord Lieutenant of the
County of Clare. He fought at the Boyne, and died
soon after. He had married Philadelphia, eldest
daughter of Francis Leonard Lord Dacre, of tlie
South, and sister to Thomas, Earl of Sussex. She
died in 1662, leaving two sons by Lord Clare, Daniel
and Charles ; Daniel, the fourth Viscount, went with
King James into France, and was selected by that
Monarch to form a portion of the Brigade of Mount-
cashel. He died in 1693 at Pignerol, of wounds he had
received on the occasion of the victory gained by Catinat
over the Allies at Marsiglia. He never married, and
his brother Charles, who had espoused the eldest
daughter of Henry Buckley, Esq. Master of the
Household to King James, became the fifth Viscount.
For him was embodied a French Brigade Regiment,
styled the Queen's Dismounted Dragoons, that after-
wards was eminently distinguished in the wars of the
Continent. It consisted of one Battalion formed into
six Companies, each of one hundred men, officered by
one Captain, two Lieutenants, and two Comets.
Alexander Barnewall was its Lieutenant-Colonel,
and Charles Maxwell, Major.
This gallant Brigade in 1691 mounted the trenches
* Graham's Derriana, p. 27.
316 KING James's irisii army list.
at Mountmelian, and served in Piedmont in 1(593.
At the battle of Marsiglia, being strengthened to three
Battalions, they presented a phalanx which remained
impenetrable to tlie attacks of the German Regiments
commanded by Prince Eugene, and they mainly
effected his defeat. In Spain, in 1695, this Lord
Clare, at the head of his Dragoons, was very active in
several encounters, and chiefly contributed to raising
the siege of Castle Follet. In the Campaign of 1696,
his Regiment was distinguished at the siege of Valen-
za in Lombardy, in one of the sallies from which the
garrison bore everything before them, until checked
by Clare's Regiment, who finally repulsed and pur-
sued them to the palisades of Ortavie. In 1703, it
won much glory in the Italian campaign, when
Prince Eugene was compelled to raise the blockade of
Mantua. Afterwards, in the same year under Villiers
it maintained its character. At Blenheim, Lord
Clare led the Irish by a forced and rapid march
against the Imperialists, charged and broke them, and
commenced a horrible carnage, which continued in
the woods during the whole of the following night.
It is perhaps unnecessary to say, however, that this
was not the brittle which immortalized Marlborough.
At that battle, however, which occurred in 1704,
Clare's was one of the Regiments posted at Oberklaw;
and, though assailed by four of the Dutch Regiments,
Lord Clare maintained his post with indescribable
bravery; the carnage was awful. In 1705, it served
in Germany under Mai'shal Villars, and in 1706 was
glare's dragoons. 317
thrown into Ramillies to resist the assault of Marlbo-
rough. " So long as the Irish were supported by the
right wing of the French, they never yielded a single
inch of ground ; but, when the cavalry of that wing
was broken, and the infantry taken in flank, they
were forced to retreat. Lord Clare, who commanded
the Irish, and who on this occasion performed prodi-
gies, did not surrender his fine corps prisoners of war,
but cut his way through the enemy's Battalion, bear-
ing down their infantry with matchless intrepidity.
In the heroic effort to save his corps, he was mortally
wounded, and many of his best officers were killed.
His Lieutenant-Colonel, then Murrough O'Brien,
evinced on this occasion heroism worthy of the name.
Assuming the command, and leading on his men with
fixed bayonets, he bore down and broke through the
enemy's ranks, took two pair of colours, and joined
the rere of the French retreat on the heights of St.
Andre."* Lord Clare was himself carried into Brus-
sels, where he died of his wounds, and was interred in
the Irish monastery there.
He left several children, but only one son, another
Charles, born at St. Germains-en-Laye in 1699, and
styled the sixth Viscount, or more usually in France,
my Lord Comte de Clare. He, after some years,
having been invited to England by his cousin Henry,
Earl of Thomond, was by him presented to King
* O'Conor's Milit. Mem. p. 316-17, to which work the com-
piler is indebted for much of this narrative of Lord Clare s
Brigade.
318 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
George the First, as heir at law to his estates and
honours, whereupon he was assured of pardon, provi-
ded he would conform to the Established Church, but
with this condition he would not comply. On the
breaking out of war between France and the Empire
in 1733, this Lord was attached to the army of the
Rliine, under the Duke of Berwick, and on the follow-
ing year he served at the memorable siege of Philips-
burg, where he received a contusion on the shoulder
from the same cannon shot that killed the Marshal
Duke. The Earl of Thomond did not however forget
his nephew ; but, dying in 1741, left a will of 1738,
whereby, although he bequeathed the bulk of his
estates to Murrough, Lord O'Brien, eldest son of the
Earl of Inchiquin, as being a Protestant ; he yet left
a legacy of £20,000 to this individual, who upon his
death assumed the title of ' Thomond ' in France, and
there in the military service was distinguished for his
knowledge of strategics, particularly evinced at the
battle of Dettingen in 1743, and of Fontenoy in two
years after; on the latter occasion, he was made
Lieutenant-General. In the same year, at Ypres in
Flanders, this Regiment of Lord Clare suffered con-
siderably. The list of those killed and wounded there
records of the kUledy Lieutenant-Colonel O'Neill,
Captain-Lieutenant Shortall, Captains Talsey, Mac
EUicott and Maguire ; and Lieutenants Edward Fitz-
gerald and Macnamara ; while of the wounded
were Captain Grant, (Lord Clare's Aid-de-Camp),
Captains Christopher Plunket, Brien O'Brien,
CLARE'S DRAGOONS. 319
Creagh, Kennedy, Djiniel Mac Carty and John
O'Brien; with Lieutenants Hugh Talsey,
Davoren, Charles O'Brien, Cornelius O'Neill, and Brien
O'Brien.* A Captain O'Brien was there also mort^dly
wounded in Koth's llegiment. In two years after, at
Lauffield, was killed in Clare's Regiment Captain
Charles O'Brien ; while Capttiins Murtough and Conor
O'Brien were there iroimded. For his services in this
engagement, the French monarch promoted this Colo-
nel to the rank of Marshal Thomond, appointing him
Governor of New Brisac in Alsace, and Commander-
in-Chief of the Province of Languedoc and all the
coasts on the Mediterranean. In 1755, he married
Lady Marie Genevieve Louisa de Cheffraville, Marchio-
ness of Cheflfraville in Normandy, and, dying of fever
at Montpelier in 1762, left by her Charles, his heir,
bom at Paris in 1757, and a daughter born in 1758,
who married the Duke de Choiseul Praslin, by whom
she had a numerous issue. Cliarles the younger, and
the last Viscount, died at Paris unmarried in 1774,
when the title became extinct,f while the Regiment
that bore his name was, on his decease, drafted into
Berwick's.
JAMES O'BRYAN, THIRD VISCOUNT INCIIIQUIN,
Was a Captain of Grenadiers in this army, and as
such he was allowed a pension of £235 4s per annum
on the military establishment, with another of £100
♦ Gent. Mag. vol. xv. p. 276.
t Lodge's Peerage, vol. 2, p. 34.
320 KING James's irish army list.
per annum on the Civil List ; he died in London of
smallpox, 26th October, 1688. His third son, Rich-
ard, being an officer, also in King James's service,
and going to France in April, 1689, during the war
with that kingdom, was therefore prohibited from
coming home by the Act, 9 William III.; but, upon his
petition and his avowed willingness to take the oath
of allegiance. Queen Anne granted him licence to
return in 1703, and he died in 1707 unmarried.*
This Viscount was not included in the Attainders
of 1601 ; but Daniel Viscount Clare was then out-
lawed, as was Charles the fifth Viscoimt in 1696, by
the designation of Charles O'Bryan, commonly called
Lord Viscount Clare. There were also outlawed in
the former year Charles and Daniel O'Brien of Carrig-
aholt, and Murrough of Corrofin in the County of
Clare ; Morgan, Connor, and Daniel * O'Bryen ' of
Hospital ; William, Kennedy, and Daniel O'Bryen of
Castletown, County of Limerick ; and Teigue
'O'Brien ' of Carrowmore, County of Sligo. While in
the County of Westmeath were held Inquisitions of
outlawry against Bartholomew ' Bryan ' of Coolvock,
Francis Bryan of Ballykeeran, and Henry Bryan of
Castleback; in the County of Carlow, against
William and Michael Bryan of Raheragh ; in the
County of Kilkenny, against Walter and Michael '
Bryan of Harristown, James Bryan of Jenkinstown,
and John and Edward Fitz-james Bryan of Browns-
town ; in the County of Cork, against Dionysius
* Lodge's Peerage, vol. 2, p. 816.
Clare's dragoons. 321
Bryan of Kilcoleman, Edward Bryan, Senior, and
Edward Bryan, Junior. In the County of Wexford,
against Lucas Bryan of Wexford Town, Hugh Bryan
of Mungane, Arthur Bryan of Ironbrick, and William
* Bryant' of Rosse. In the County of Waterford,
against Darby Bryan of Craig-rush, and Terence
Bryan of Comeragh ; and lastly, against Turrock
Bryan of Ballinroan, County of Galway, and Piers
Bryan of the Queen's County. At the Court of
Claims, Francis O'Brien claimed an estate in fee, pur-
suant to the Act of Settlement, in lands forfeited by
Lord Clare ; while Ellen O'Bryen, alias O'Shaughnessy,
widow of Connor O'Bryen, claimed an estate for life
under her marriage settlements on lands forfeited by
Donogh O'Bryan.
For the gallant achievements of MuiTough O'Bryan
(of Carrigogunnell) on the Continent, see OCaUagh-
aria Brigades^ vol. I, p. 82, &c.; and of various other
O'Bryens distinguished in foreign service much will
be found in the same work, (p. 291). In 1769,
died at Cambray in France Dr. John O'Brien, there-
tofore the Roman Catholic Bishop of Cloyne.
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL JAMES PHILLIPS.
Colonel Phillips was killed early in the campaign, at
the engagement with Colonel Wolseley, near Beltur-
322 KING James's irish army list.
bet * when John Macnamara of Cratloe was appointed
in his place.
The earliest notice of this name within the scope
of these Illustrations, occurs in the Declaration of
King Charles's gratitude for ' services beyond the seas,'
which includes Captain Walter Phillips of Clonmore,
County of Mayo. Of that family was Charles Phillips,
a Captain in Colonel O'Gara's Infantry, and Gilduff
Phillips, an Ensign in his troop. Captain Charles, de-
scribed as of Ballindoe, a townland adjoining Clon-
more, and his relative Philip Phillips, were afterwards
adjudged within the Articles of Limerick. The
name appears also in King James's Charter to Kal-
kenny, where Samuel Phillips was one of the Alder-
men, and Thomas Phillips one of the Burgesse§, In
the Attainders of 1691 are included James and
Edward Phillips, described as of Dromore, County of
Down ; and this James it would certainly seem was
the Lieutenant-Colonel here under consideration. As
the surname has, however, not flourished in the North,
while in the aforesaid locality of Clonmore it existed
to the present year, some particidars of its descent
from Wales are extracted from an ancient Pedigree
in the" compiler's possession, drawn up in the last
century, and expressedly vouched by the attestation of
all the Roman Catholic Bishops of Connaught, and
the Warden of Galway.
It commences with Cadifer ap Colhoyn, Lord of
Dyfed, who was of the same tribe with Vortigem
* O'Callaghan's Irish Brigades, vol. 1, p. 86.
glare's dragoons. 323
King of Britain, and paternally descended from Maxi-
mus, King of Britain and Emperor of Rome. This Cad-
ifer was the founder of the ennobled line of Picton
Castle, and from him and his lady Helen, only daugh-
ter and heiress of Lleoch Llawen Vawr, a Prince of
Wales, the tree of these two Houses grows out
through his lineal heir male. Sir Adrin Ap Rhys, who
attended Richard the First into the Holy Land,
where he behaved so gallantly that he received the
order of Knighthood of the Holy Sepulchre, and a
grant of armorials, a lion rampant sable in a field
argent. His descendant, Philip ap Evan, left a son
Meredith, who was the first that took the name of
Phillips, styling himself Meredith Phillips, instead of
ap Phillip, the usual character of designation.
This Meredith was born in 1242, and while his
eldest son, Pldlip Phillips of Kylsant, was the ancestor
of the family of Picton Castle, his youngest son, John
Phillips, in the time of Edward the First, crossed
over in that monarch's service to subdue the Irish
* rebels ' in Connaught, where, the enterprise having
succeeded, he acquired the patrimony of Clonmore,
with the townlands annexed in the County of Mayo, in
reward of his services. This John was born in 1271,
as was, in the eighth generation from him, Gilbert
Phillips of Clonmore, who married Mary Jordan,
daughter of Walter Jordan, a Chief of the adjacent
Barony of Gallen. Their eldest son Philip Phillips,
bom in 1557, married a daughter of O'Gara,
Chief of the Barony of Coolavin, in the County of
Sligo; and their son Myles, bom in 1590, married
Y 2
824 KING JAM£S'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
Mable, daughter of O'Donnelan of Rossedonelan,
County of Roscommon. Walter, the eldest son of
Myles and Mable, became a Major in the army, and
he is the individual named in the aforesaid Declara-
tion of thanks. He married Winifred, daughter of
Dudley Costello of the Barony of Costello. Their
eldest son, Philip Phillips, commonly called Captain
Phillips, was born in Austrian Belgium in 1653,
where his father then sojourned with the Royal
Family. On the Restoration these exiles returned to
Clonmore; and Philip, in 1682, married Bridget
O'Mulloy, daughter of Edward O'Mulloy, Chief of
Oughtertyry, County of Roscommon. Their eldest
son Myles, born in 1684, married in 1712 Juliana,
daughter of Edward Browne of Tullimore, County of
Mayo, by whom he had issue Edward his eldest son,
Philip Phillips his second son. Archbishop of Tuam,
('lately deceased,' says the Manuscript cited), and
John who died unmarried. Edward, in October,
1739, married Helena, daughter of John O'Kelly,
County of Galway, by whom he had one son, Thomas;-
born in January, 1749, who in 1767 married Cathe-
rine, daughter of Philip and Anne O'Byme of Kil-
loughter. County of Wicklow. Their issue * are '
Edward, bom 24th May, 1768; PhUip, bom 1770;
and Myles, born 1774. Here this ancient Pedigree
concludes. Edward, the eldest son, married in 1794,
Anne, daughter of Doctor Terence Mac Dermot of
Coolavin, and had issue Thomas, (and two other sons
who died unmarried), with three daughters. Thomas,
Clare's dragoons. 325
the eldest son of Edward, married in 1828 Alicia,
daughter of Doctor OTerrall, of the old Sept of
Annaly, and he has by her three sons and four
daughters.
This family, of such ancient origin and old l^pect-
ability in their County, has, in the bloodless revolution
of the Incumbered Estates' Commission, been uprooted
from the soil. They are there no more.
MAJOR FRANCIS BROWNE.
He was descended from Dominick Browne, who was
Mayor of Galway ;n 1575, through a younger son,
Andrew ; (the eldest son of Dominick was Geofiiy,
ancestor of Lord Oranmore). Andrew's son, John,
was the father of this Major Francis, who having been
killed at Athlone was attainted in the following year,
the Inquisition styling him 'a Merchant of Waterford.'
On his death and attainder, his brother Anthony
succeeded to his property, and he was the lineal
ancestor of the present inheritor of Moyne, Michael
Joseph Browne.
Extended notices of this name are api)ended to
Lord Kenmare.
CAPTAIN REDMOND MAGRATH.
The Sept of Magrath, or Mac Crath, was located in
326 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
the County of Tipperary, also at Termon-Magrath in
the County of Fermanagh, and in later time in the
County of Clare, where they are spoken of in the mid-
dle ages as the chief poets of Thomond ; while in the
Parish of Modeligo, County of Waterford, they had a
large estate, on which the remains of their Castles are
noted by Smith.* In 1224, Simon Magrath was
Bishop of Ardagh; of Killaloe, Matthew ' Mac Cragh '
was Bishop in 1391, Donat ' Mac Cragh in 1428,
Thady Mac Cragh in 1430, and Dermot 'Mac Cragh '
in 1480; and Matthew Macraigh was Bishop of Clon-
fert in 1482. In the ensuing century lived Miler
Magrath, a Franciscan friar of the Fermanagh line of
this family. He had been by the Pope's provision ad-
vanced to the See of Down ; but, having embraced the
Protestant religion in 1570, he was by Queen Eliza-
beth translated to that of Clogher, and afterwards in
the same year to the Archbishopric of Cashel, with
Emly annexed, and yet more those of Waterford and
Lismore by a commendatory grant, with various other
substantial favours from her Majesty. He filled the
Archbishopric for upwards of fifty-two years, during
which time, says Harris in his additions to Ware,
'he made most scandalous wastes and alienations of the
revenues and manors belonging to it.' He died at
Cashel in 1 622, in the hundredth year of his age.f In
1629, a Royal warrant issued, directing Lord Falkland
♦ History of Waterford, p. 82.
t Ware's? Bishops, pp. 481-5.
CLARE'S- DRAGOONS. 327
to grant a Baronetage* to John Magrath of Attyvo-
lane, in the County of Tipperary, who had some years
previously obtained from the Crown a grant of the
Lordship of Knockorden, with divers townlands, the
castle, town, and lands of Ballyneanty, and all tithes
and advowsons belonging to the premises, with courts
leet and baron.f
The Attainders of 1641 present the names of Rich-
ard and Patrick Magrath, both of Fyanstown, County
of Meath; while Cromwell's Act (1652) so often
cited, excepted from pardon for life and estate Sir
John ' Magragh ' of the County of Tipperary, (i. e.
the Baronet of Attyvolane), and Turlogh, son of
James Magragh. Besides Captain Kedmond Ma-
grath, there are on this List Bryan Magrath, a Lieu-
tenant in the Earl of Antrim's Infantry ; James, a
Captain in the Earl of Tyrone's ; Terence and Jolin,
Captains in Lord Galmoy's (the latter was afterwards
adjudged within the Articles of Limerick) ; another
Terence was Lieutenant in Tyrone's, Miles and
Nicholas were Lieutenants in Colonel John Barrett's,
and Thomas was a Captain in Sir Charles O'Bryan's
Infantry.
It appears from the Inquisitions of 1691, and the
Petitions of 1700, that this Captain Redmond was of
* Gilbert, in his interesting History of the City of Dublin,
states (p. 4) that Charles II. granted to the request of Sir
James Ware, who had declined the honours of a Viscounty and
a Baronetage from his Sovereign, two blank baronetcies which
Sir James filled up for two friends.
t Rot. Pat. 13, Jac. 1, in Cane. Hib.
328 KING James's irish army list.
a Clare family, and seized of estates in that County ;
an estate tail in which was on his attainder claimed
by Robert Magrath, and allowed. Bedmond Magrath,
a minor, also sought and was allowed an estate tail in
other Clare lands of said Redmond, under articles
entered into in 1687, upon the marriage of James, the
father of said minor, and Mary his mother; under
which articles that mother was allowed an annuity
and jointure off said lands; while John Magrath
obtained the benefit of a mortgage on the same estate,
and Honora, widow of Thomas Magrath, an annuity
thereof. For other claims, see antej p. 155. A
large portion lying in the Barony of Tullagh, County
of Clare, was sold by the Commissioners of the forfei-
tures to Terence Geoghegan in 1703. Another
Magrath then attainted was Bryan of Large, County
of Fermanagh.
At the battle of Lauffield, near Maestricht, in 1747,
Captain John Magrath and Lieutenant Magrath
were of those in Berwick's Brigade wounded.
CAPTAIN ROGER SHAUGHNESST.
The O'Shaughnessys were Lords of a mountainous dis-
trict dividing Galway from Clare. The Sept is, how-
ever, traced in the Annals of other parts of this
country. In 1060, died Dermot O'Shaughnessy,
Abbot of Dunshaughlin, County of Meath ; as did in
1140 another Dermot O'Shaughnessy, *the most dis-
glare's dragoons. 329
tinguished sage of Leath Cuinn,' the northern half of
Ireland ; and in 1224, Giolla-na-naomh O'Shaugh-
nessy, Lord of the western half of Kinalea, (Barony of
Kiltartan, County of Galway). In 1451, a licence
for using the English law was granted to Donat
• O'Shasnam,' which seems to refer to a member of this
Sept. In 1543, King Henry, by a patent, reciting
that Sir Dermot O'Shaughnessy and his ancestors had
theretofore possessed themselves of premises in the
County of Galway unjustly^ but that Sir Dermot had
now surrendered same, the King therefore hereby con-
veyed to hhn as the Chief of his name, and to his heirs
male, all the manors, lands, &c. of Gort-Inchigorie,
with several other denominations. To Perrot's Par-
liament of 1585, went John and Dermot, the two sons
of Giolla Dhu O'Shaughnessy, Chief of Kinel-aodha
and Gort ; while in the Supreme Council of 1647,
Dermot O'Shaughnessy, the heir male of Dermot of
1543, was one of the Commons. He was deprived of
his estates by the Usurping Powers ; but on the Re-
storation was knighted, and by the Act of Explana-
tion restored to his seat and 2,000 acres of his inhe-
ritance.
In 1642, the Marquis of Clanricarde wrote to Lord
Inchiquin : — " The bearer, my noble kinsman, Sir
Roger Shaughnessy, has, by my licence, taken his de-
parture out of this government into Munster, to take
care of his lady, family [who were besieged there]
and estate in these parts, which, by reason of his long
absence, doth and may suffer by the general unhappy
330 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
distemper in this kingdom. I could not let so much
worth and merit pass from me, without giving your
Lordship notice that in his own person, his son and
followers, he hath constantly, and with much forward
affection, been present and assisting to me in all my
proceedings and endeavours for his Majesty's ser-
vice/** The son here alluded to was Dermot
O'Shaughnessy, hereinafter mentioned, who raised
fifty foot soldiers in the Marquis's service. William,
the brother of Sir Roger, was likewise a Captain in
the Clanricarde levy, and his character and loyalty
obtained from the Corporation of Galway in 1648 a
vote that he, then "Lieutenant-Colonel William
O'Shaughnessy, (in consideration of his alliance in
blood to the whole town, and for the good nature and
affection that he and his whole family do bear to it,)
and his posterity shall be hereafter free of their
guild. "f The Captain Roger in this Regiment was the
lineal male descendant of his namesake ; he married
Helen, daughter of Connor O'Bryan, Lord Viscount
Clare ; joined King James's forces, and was present
at the battle of the Boyne, from which he returned
home sick, though not wounded, and died in the
Castle of Gort ten days after that fatal field. He was
attainted in 1697, when his estates were granted to
Sir Thomas Prendergast, ' a gentleman of family in
Ireland,'! " upon the most valuable consideration of his
• Clanricarde's Memoirs, fol. p. 201.
t Hardiman's Galway, p. 216.
{ Dalrymple's Mem. vol. 3, p. 76.
CLARE'S DRAGOONS. 331
discovering a most barbarous and bloody conspiracy
to assassinate the King's most Excellent Majesty, to
destroy the liberties and in consequence the Protest-
ant religion throughout Europe.'' The Irish House
of Commons had previously solemnly thanked him
therefor ; and, on a representation that the rental of
O'Shaughnessy's estate fell short of £500 per ann.
other lands in the Counties of Tipperary, Galway,
Roscommon and Wexford were added to those already
appropriated for his reward ; the latter to the clear
amount of £334 per annum. The O'Shaughnessy
estates were afterwards the subject of long litigation,
even to an appeal to the Lords ; but all attempts to
disturb the grant of these confiscations were ineflFec-
tive. Sir William, the heir of Roger O'Shaughnessy,
died an exile in France in 1744. His cousin and
next heir was Coleman O'Shaughnessy, Roman Catho-
lic Bishop of Ossory, who instituted the alleged pro-
ceedings ; they were continued by his next relative,
Roebuck O'Shaughnessy, and on his death by Joseph,
the son of Roebuck, until decisively defeated.
The Attainders of 1691 include those of Dermot
'Shaghnessy' of Castlegar, and William Shaghnessy
of Gort ; while from the claims preferred at Chiches-
ter House it appears that Captain Hugh Kelly, on
behalf of himself and his wife, sought a jointure
charged under settlements of 1688, on lands in the
County of Galway, forfeited by Roger O'Shaughnessy;
but their petition was dismist. In 1699, the
Trustees of the Forfeited Estates complained, in an
332 KING James's irisu army list.
official report, that so hasty had been several of the
grantees or their agents in the disposal of the forfeited
woods, that vast numbers of trees had been cut and
sold for not above 6d. a piece; and they particularly
named the wood of O'Shaughnessy's estate as having
been the subject of such waste.
CAPTAIN THADY QUINN.
This ancient Sept is recognised in the native Annals
from the earliest date of surnames ; those of Ulster
commemorate, amongst the heroes who fought at Clon-
tarf in 1014, Neill O'Quin. Widely spreading over
Ireland, this family held territory in Limerick, Clare,
Longford, Westmeath, and Derry. In the first
County the name has been in later years ennobled,
with the titles of Barons Adare and Earls of Dun-
raven. In 1095, died of the plague Augustin
O'Quinn, Chief Brehon of Leinster ; and in 1188,
Edwina, commemorated as 'daughter of O'Quinn of
Muinter-Iffernan in Thomond (Clare), and Queen of
Munster,* died in her pilgrimage at Derry, 'victorious
over the world and the devil.' In 1252, Thomas
O'Quinn was Bishop of Clonmacnoise, as was John
Quin of Limerick in 1505. The Patent Rolls record
pardons to Thomas 0 'Cuin ' in 1318, to Maolmurry
O'Coigne' of Castlemartin in 1395 ; and in 1402,
King Henry the Fourth granted to Thomas O'Coyne,
clerk, 'of the Irish nation and blood,' liberty to use
CLARE'S DRAGOONS. 333
the English law and language. In 1404, David and
John 0' ' Coynge/ of the County of Kildare, sued out
a licence of pardon ; and in 1413, Henry the Fifth
granted to James 0 *Coygne' similar licence as that
before given to Thomas 0 'Coyne,' clerk, with the
additional liberty of acquiring lands in mortmain for
religious uses. Walter Quinn 'of Dublin' was
preceptor to Prince Henry, on whose death he pub-
lished an epitaph in 1613.*
The Act that in 1612 confiscated Ulster by the
attainder of the Earl of Tyrone and his confederates,
included Murtogh O'Quinn, 'late of Dungannon,' and
Teigue Modder O'Quinn of the same place. Crom-
well's memorable Ordinance of 1652 excepted from
pardon for life and estate Brien Modder O'Quynne,
and Turlogh Groom O'Quynne of Monagowre, in the
County of Tyrone; while Mr. John Quinn was one of
the twenty-four whom Ireton condemned to die on
the capitulation of Limerick. The Attainders of
1642 include Richard and Laughlin Quinn of Bally-
hooke. County of Wicklow ; Edmund Quin of Bal-
lenteskin, do. clerk ; Christopher Quinn of St.
Audoen's parish, Dublin, and Christopher Quin of St.
Michan's, do. merchant. In a patent of Clare lands
granted in 1680 to Dame Lucy 'Fitzmorrice' and
her son Richard Fitz-Morrice, there was an especial
saving of the rights of Thady Quinn, possibly the
above Captain, to certain lands therein, and to a mort-
gage on others of the grant.
♦ Watt's Biblioth. Britt.
334 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
On this Army List, besides the above Captain
Thady Quinn, Daniel Quinn was a Quarter-Master in
Colonel Nicholas Purcell's Horse, as was Robert
Quinn in Lord Dongan's Dragoons ; Christopher
*Quin/ a Cornet in Colonel Symon Luttrell's, and
James 'Quinn/ a Lieutenant in Major General Boise-
leau's Infantry. Captain Thady Quinn was attainted
in 1691, when his estates in the County of Limerick
became vested in the Crown. The other Outlawries
were of William Quin of Dublin, Richard Quinn of
Athy, Hugh Mc Turlogh O'Quin of Cornetule, and
Brian Ogc Mac Turlogh O'Quin of Glunoe, County of
Tyrone.
LIEUTENANT SYLVESTER PURDON.
While this name is still extant of respectability in
the County of Clare, the above Lieutenant appears
to have been of a Cork family ; to one of whom. Colo-
nel Bartholomew Purdon, M. P. who died in 1737,
a monument is erected in the church of Ballyclogh.
The name does not appear on the Outlawries, or else-
where on the Army List.
LIEUTENANT WILLIAM LYSAGHT.
I^ 1542, Edward 'Lysart* was presented by the
King to the perpetual vicarage of Ballytobin, which
CLARE'S DRAGOONS. 335
had come to the Crown on the Dissolution of monas-
teries, as parcel of the possessions of that of Kenlis in
Ossory. The List of * Scholars ' of Trinity College,
Dublin, in 1612, has the name of Daniel Lysagh,
otherwise Mac Gillisagh, afterwards presented to
the rectory of Rathblynninge in the Diocese of
KUlaloe^ with a proviso that * unless he shall reside
thereon, after he shall have finished his studies in
Trinity College, Dublin, the presentation shall be void.'*
In the war of 1641, James Lysaght was a Comet in
the army, and distinguished himself under the com-
mand of the Earl of Inchiquin. [His son Nicholas
was a Captain in King William's army at the battle
of the Boyne, and was afterwards a claimant at Chi-
chester House, for charges affecting the Clare estates
of William Creagh, but his petition was dismist.
His son John Lysaght was in 1758 raised to the
Peerage, by the title of Baron Lisle of Mountrath, a
title which still exists.] In 1666, Comet John
Lysaght had a confirmatory grant of 500 acres in the
Barony of Orrery, County of Cork. It was at this
time that a Thomas Lysaght, then a young man,
being on his passage to England, on his way to study
at Oxford, was taken by a French privateer and car-
ried into France, where he became a convert to the
Soman Catholic religion. Incurring thereby the
displeasure of his father, he was disinherited, and the
estate of the family was bequeathed by that gentleman
♦ Rot. Pat. 10 Car. 1, in Cane. Hib.
336 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
to a younger son, the above Captain Nicholas of King
William's anny.
In the old cathedral graveyard of Kilfenora is the
chief burial place of the Clare Lysaghts, and on a slab
there is an inscription to Patrick Lysaght; in his
epitaph he is made to say, ^ Marti et Baccho saspe
tributa dedV The tradition of the country points
to his grave as that of 'the warrior/ and suggests him
to have been engaged in the Stuart wars, more especially
as it is stated on the tombstone that he died in 1741,
at the very advanced age of 85 ; he had four brothers,
whose descendants are yet established in and about
Ennis. In 1678, a William Lysaght, possibly the
above Lieutenant, obtained a grant of 800 acres in
the Baronies of Bunratty, Tulla, and Inchiquin in
the County of Clare, by a patent in which he is ex-
pressly described as the son of a Patrick Lysaght
The daughters and co-heiresses of this William were
married as before mentioned, ante^ p. 84. Besides
this Lieutenant, a Thomas ' Lycett ' held the same
rank In Colonel Carroll's Dragoons.
In the before mentioned churchyard of Ballyclogh,
County of Cork, is a handsome monument to the
memory of the above John Lysaght, styled of Mount-
north, Lord Lisle, and to his wife Catherine, who
died before him. In the year 1780, another John
Lysaght, styled of Brick-hill, died at Mallow; he was
the father of the facetious Barrister of a past gene-
ration,— Ned Lysaght.
CLARE'S DRAGOONS. 337
LIEUTENANT JOSEPH FURLONG.
This family was one of the earliest English colonists
of the County of Wexford, where they settled in the
neighbourhood of Roscarlan, On the Patent Rolls of
1346, David Furlong is mentioned as then a landed
proprietor there ; \t would seem indeed he was the
mitred Abbot of the noble monastery of Dunbrody,
whose remains, after a lapse of centuries, are still
strikingly interesting. About his time a Carmelite
House was founded and endowed at Hoartown, in the
same County, by a Furlong. In the Parliament of
1585, Patrick Furlong was one of the Representatives
of the borough of Wexford ; and at the Supreme Council
of Kilkenny, Mark Furlong, described as of Wexford,
was one of the Commons. This Mark, it would seem,
was the same gratefully named in the Declaration of
Royal gratitude of 1662, for subsequent services
* beyond the seas.'
Besides this Lieutenant Joseph, James Furlong was
a Quarter-Master in Lord Tyrconnel's Horse. Yet
neither of the names appears in the Outlawries of
1691, which do mention David Furlong of Bannow,
Nicholas of Kilcavan, Michael of Brown-castle, and
Walter of Coole-Hall. The lands of the latter were
in. 1703 purchased from the Trustees of the Forfeited
Estates by George Saville.
Ware, in his 'Writers of Ireland,' makes mention
of a White Furlong, bom in Wexford, a student in
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338 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
Oxford, and subsequently a priest and author ; while
in later years Thomas Furlong of the same County
was a poet, whose talents, out of Ireland, might have
been encouraged into high repute. He was one of
the principal translators engaged in that national com-
pilation of Mr. Hardiman, " the Irish Minstrelsy," —
the songs of Carolan having been assigned for his trans-
lation. Dying in 1827, at the age of 33 years, he
was buried at Drumcondra, near the monument of
Francis Grose the Antiquarian.*
LIEUTENANT PATRICK IIEHIR.
The Sept of O'Hehir was in earliest time noticed as
territorially located at Magh-Adhair, a district of Clare
lying between Ennis and TuUa. In a battle fought
in 1094, at Fenagh, in the County of Leitrim, between
Eoderic O'Conor with his adherents of the Siol-Murry,
and the people of Thomond and West Connaught, in
which Roderic was victorious, Aulaffe O'Hehir was
slain ; while the Four Masters notice at 1099 the
death of Donogh O'Hehir, as then Lord of Magh-
Adhair. Soon after, however, this Sept were driven
hence by the Macnamaras, westward to Hy-Cormaic,
a tract lying between Slieve Callan and the town of
Ennis.
The name does not appear on the Attainders of
1642, but the clause of Royal gratitude in the Act of
♦ D'Alton's County of Dublin, p. 247
clake's dragoons. 339
Settlement includes Ensign Turlogh O'Hehir, de-
scribed as of Balame in that County. Adherents, as
this family were of the O'Briens, the present Army
List, besides the above Lieutenant Patrick, presents
Teigue O'Hehir, an Ensign in Colonel Charies
O'Bryan's Regiment of Infantry ; while, still following
the fortunes of the dethroned Stuart under the
O'Bryan guidance, Captain Hehir was one of those in
Clare's Regiment of Dragoons, wounded at the battle of
Lauffield village in 1747.
LIEUTENANT RICHARD BEDFORD.
This Officer was of Ardclogh in the County of Wick-
low, as was also Thomas Bedford an Ensign in the
Earl of Tyrone's Infantry, and a Dennis Bedford
attainted at the same time, all of whom are described
in the Inquisitions for their outlawry as of this
locality. The name is of record in the Irish Rolls
of Chancery from Edward the First.
CORNET HUGH PERRY.
This name is not repeated on the Army List, nor does
it at all appear on the Attainders. It is traced in the
later records of Cork ; as that of * Pery ' is from an
earlier period in Limerick ; where, in the middle of
the last century, flourished the Bight Honourable
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340 KING JAMES'S IKISH ARMY LIST.
Edmund Sexton Pery, by whose influence that City
of the Sieges was, though not until the year 1760, de-
clared by government to be no longer a fortress ; and
its walls were thereupon levelled, new approaches
made to it, and a new bridge and spacious quays were
constructed.
CORNET NICHOLAS ARCIIDEKIN.
This name is traceable in tlie Local and Family Hist-
ory of the Counties of Galway and Kilkenny, from a
very early period, and subsequently in Cork. Alured,
Prior of the House of Inistiogue, County of Kilkenny,
assigned in 1218 to the Abbey of St. Thomas of Dub-
lin, a moiety of the Churches of Kilcormack and Tul-
laghbarry, with which his house had been previously
endowed by Stephen Archdekin, Knight ; who on this
occasion confirmed the transfer. In 1309, * Maurice
le Ercedekne' had livery of his estates in Ireland, a
short time previous to which John le Ercedekne,
Maurice le Ercedekne, Sylvester and William le
Ercedekne were summoned, as * Fideles ' of Ireland,
to the Scottish wars. And in 1435, John Archde-
kin, a citizen and merchant of Dublin, was permitted
to sue out a ' quietus ' from being thenceforth sum-
moned on Juries. In 1585, Robert ' Archdeacon' was
one of the Representatives of Ennistiogue in Perrot's
Parliament. In King James's Charter of 1687, to
Kilkenny, John Archdekin, merchant, was one of the
glare's dragoons. 341
Aldermen ; John Archdekin, junior, merchant, She-
riff, and Peter Archdekin, Chamberlain. The aforesaid
Alderman John was in 1689 elected by this body
Mayor of their City.
Besides the above Nicholas, Redmond 'Archdeacon'
was a Lieutenant in Lord Galway's Infantry. The
former, according to the description on the Inquisi-
tion of Outlawry in 1691, was of the County of Cork,
yet he is shown on record to have been seized of lands
in Galway, which were the subject of a marriage set-
tlement in 1699; while Redmond is styled on his
Attainder as of Tristane, County of Galway. There
were also attainted with them in 1691, James Arch-
deacon of Kilmosheer, Henry Archdeacon of the City
of Cork, merchant, and John Archdeacon of Monks-
town, in the same County, at which latter place the
castle was erected by one of said John's progenitors.
CORNET THOMAS CLANCHY.
The Mac Clanchys were a Sept of the Dal-Cassian
stock, hereditary Brehons or Judges of Thomond,
under the O'Bryans its Princes ; while another family
of the name were Lords of Dartry and Rosclogher, in
West Brefney (Leitrim). The Declaration of Royal
gratitude in 1662, for ' services beyond the seas,' in-
cludes Captain Murtough Clanchy of Castlekeale,
County of Clare ; while on this Army List, besides
842 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
Comet Thomas, John * Clancy ' was a Lieutenant in
the Royal Infantry.
The Attainders of 1691 name Murtough and
James Clancy of Knocklane, Beetum Clancy of Cor-
ringer, and Boetius Clancy of Glancun, all in the
County of Clare. At the Court of Chichester House
in 1700, Connor Clancey claimed a freehold in a small
estate of Lord Clare ; — allowed.
QUARTER-MASTER WILLIAM HAWFORD.
This surname, probably identical with Harford, is not
found again on the List, nor at all on the Attainders.
A family of the latter spelling existed in the County
of Dublin in the last century.
QUARTER-MASTER EDMUND BOHILLY.
The Milesian surname of O'Bohilly, O'Bohill, O'Boyle,
is of early record, as well on the native annals as on
the Rolls of the Irish Chancery. In 1099, Canlam-
rach O'Boyle was Bishop of Armagh, as was Cineath
O'Boyle of Clogher in 1135. In 1301, during the
vacancy of the See of Cashel, the King presented
John O'Boghill to the Vicarage of Calveston, within
that Diocese ; while in 1318 Dionysius O'Boghill sued
out a patent for pardon and protection, and in 1597
* Rolls in Cane. Ilib.
glabe's dragoons. 843
Niall O'Boyle was Bishop of Raphoe. Of the particu-
lar individual, however, here in commission, nothing
has been ascertained, nor of his family.
QUARTEE.MASTER JAMES O'DEA.
This Sept possessed the territory in the County of
Clare now known as the Parish of Dysart, in the
Barony of Inchiquin, and within it had many castles,
of which some ruins still remain. Branches of the
family had also settled in Cork and Tipperary. So
e^rly as 1151 the Four Masters record that when at
Moinmore, a place which lies between Cork and the
Blackwater, a battle was fought to establish the right
to the sovereignty of Munster, (claimed as vested
in the O'Brien succession), no less than nine of the
Sept of O'Dea were slain. Again, in 1318 occurred
the battle of Dysart-O'Dea, where Sir Robert de Clare
was slain by Conor O'Dea, the warlike Prince of
Cineal-Fermain,* a country of ancient Thomond in
the County of Clare. In 1415, Dionysius O'Dea,
precentor in the Cathedral of Limerick, sued out a
licence to absent himself from his dignity for five
years, and place himself in the schools of Oxford or
Cambridge, receiving there, however, during that in-
terval, the profits of his precentorship :f he was subse-
♦ Vallancey's Collect. Hib. vol. 1, p. 617.
t Rot. Pat. 2 Hen. 5, in Cane. Hib.
344 KING James's ibish asmt list.
quently raised to the See of Ossory. Cornelius O'Dea
died Bishop of Limerick in 1426, while another Cor-
nelius O'Dea was the first Prelate appointed to the
See of Killaloeby Henry VIII. in 1546 ; his predeces-
sor, James O'Corren, having then resigned " for the
sake of retirement and living private.''* At the
Court of Chichester House, John O'Dea was a claim-
ant for a freehold in Clare, on Lord Clare's confisca-
tions ; — allowed.
REGIMENTS OF DRAGOONS.
COLONEL SIMON LUTTRELL's.
CajUains,
CorneU. i
Th Colonel.
Lieut.-Colonel.
Edward Moclare,
Major.
OliTcr Grace.
Charles Geoghegan.
Charles Lucas.
Adam Kennigs.
Christopher Quinn,
, Thomas Bourke.
Thomas Ducken-
Henry Morley.
Christopher Tyrrell.
field.
Sir Edward TyrreU.
John Perkins.
Qua rter- Masters.
COLONEL SIMON LUTTRELL.
An Inquisition taken in 1687 finds that Thomas Lut-
trell of Luttrelstown died about fourteen years pre-
* Ware's Bishops.
luttrell's dragoons. 345
vious, seized of upwards of 2,500 acres in the County
of Dublin, with the Rectories of Clonsillagh, Duna-
bate, and Knockraddy, and that this Simon Luttrell
was his son and heir ; and as so much has been
written of the Luttrell family, ante, p. 189, &c., the
notices here shall be confined to him. When Tyrcon-
nel repaired to Cork to receive King James on his
landing, this Simon (who had previously, as before
mentioned, antej p. 61, been the Lieutenant-Colonel
of the Hon. Thomas Newcomen's Infantry), was
appointed Governor of Dublin, with an adequate Gar-
rison.* Such he continued to be when James
made his entry into that City ; and, in the Parlia-
ment convened there inimediately after, he repre-
sented the County of Dublin. In June, 1690, when
James heard that his rival was marching to confront
him, he committed Dublin to the more especial charge
of Colonel Simon Luttrell, intending himself to pene-
trate northwards to Dundalk, preserving the harvest
of the County of Louth behind him.f After the de-
feat at the Boyne, when Berwick collected a body of
the routed Army at Brazeel, near Swords, King
James at his instance sent out from Dublin six troops
of this Colonel's Dragoons, to cover the Duke's retreat
into the City. He afterwards, when determined to
fly from Ireland, ordered this Officer to march to
Leixlip with all the forces in town, except two troops
of his own Regiment of Horse, of which this Army
♦ Clarke's Mem. Jac. 2, v. 2, p. 378.
t D' Alton 8 Drogbeda, v. 2, p. 316.
346 KING James's irish army list.
List affords no details, but which he kept to attend
upon himself if necessitated to fly.* After the de-
parture of his Sovereign, however, Colonel Simon,
true to the interest of the self-exiled James, returned
to Dublin, and did not retire from the trust which
had been reposed in him, until dusk.f (A Narcissus
Luttrel, it may be remarked, was about this time in
King William's service,! while a Spottiswode Luttrel
commanded an independent troop for James after the
Boyne §) When the Irish party at Limerick, opposed
to Tyrconnel, despatched their deputation to the King
at St. Germains, Colonel Simon was associated therein,
as before mentioned, p. 54.
He was attainted in 1691, as were also his wife,
and Thomas Luttrell described as of Luttrelstown,
and Robert Luttrel of Simonstown, County of Kil-
dare. That wife, Katherine, became a widow before
the sitting of the Court of Claims in 1700, where she
preferred a memorial for her jointure off his estates in
the Counties of Dublin and Kildare, which was
allowed her ; while his brother, Colonel Henry,
claimed an estate tail therein ; but his petition was
postponed, as pending already before Parliament.
Margaret Luttrel, spinster, also sought and was
allowed a remainder for years in Meath lands of said
Colonel Simon. By the Articles of Limerick it was
♦ Clarke's James II. vol. 2» p. 402.
t O'Callaghan 8 Excid, Mac. p. 868.
I Rawdon Papers, p. 419.
§ Singer s Correspondence, v. 2, p. 514.
luttrell's dragoons. 347
agreed that this Simon Luttrell, together with Mau-
rice Eustace of Yeomanstown, and Chevers of
Mayestown, commonly called 'Viscount Leinster,' (who
are stated then to belong to the Regiments in the
garrisons and quarters of the Irish Army beyond the
seas, sent thither upon the affairs of their respective
Regiments, or of the Army in general), should have
the benefit thereof, provided they returned within
eight months, submitted to King William's govern-
ment, and took the oath of allegiance.* Simon did
not, however, avail himself of this proffered amnesty ;
but, remaining in France, became there Colonel of
the ' Queen's Regiment of Guards,' of which Francis
Wauchop was Lieutenant-Colonel, and James O'Brien
Major.f He died in September, 1698, as recorded
on his monument in the Chapel of the Irish College
at Paris, and left no issue to represent him.J
O'Conor commemorates him as an Officer of great in-
tegrity, who followed faithfully the fortune of King
James, and forfeited his estates in that cause. The
same historian says that at the battle of Marsiglia, in
1693, his Lieutenant-Colonel, at the head of 2,600
Irishmen, was posted in the centre of Catinat's line,
and that in assuring this victory, these Irish had a
principal share; their leader, Wauchop, however, fell
on the field.§
♦ Harleian MSS. v. 7, p. 490.
t Fitzgerald's Limerick, v. 2, p. 374.
t O'Callaghan 8 Irish Brigades, vol. 1, p. 203.
§ O'Conor 8 Military Memoirs, v. 1, pp. 219, 222.
348 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
In 1696, Colonel Simon LuttrelFs glebe land was
granted to Walter Delamer in trust,* while several im-
propriate Rectories and Tithes, of which he had been
seized, were granted by the Commissioners to the Trus-
tees for augmenting poor livings, &c.; and at Chiches-
ter House in 1700, many claims were preferred and
some allowed affecting his lands in the Counties of
Dublin, Kildare, and Meath, and his house property
in Dublin City.
MAJOR EDWARD MOCLARE.
The Moclares were a family very widely spread over
Tipperary in the time of Queen Elizabeth. It does
not appear, however, of what County this Major was
a native ; while in Colonel Dudley Bagnall's Infantry
John Moclare was a Captain, and James Moclare an
Ensign. The Attainders of 1691 present the names
of James Moclare, Knight, of Dublin ; and a Jeflfry
* Mockler ' was the forfeiting occupant of lands in the
Barony of Tulla, County of Clare, which were claimed
in 1703, and allowed to be the estate in fee of Sir
Arthur Gore, then a minor.
CAPTAIN THOMAS DUCKENFIELD.
This Officer is described in the Inquisition of At-
tainder as of Longwood, County of Meath ; as is also
♦ Harris's MSS. Dub. Soc. v. 10, p. 260.
luttrell's dragoons. 349
a Loftus Duckenfield who was attainted at the same
time. The name no otherwise occurs on this Army
List, or in the Attainders. Captain Thomas appears
to have been the son of Colonel William Duckenfield,
by Elinor, daughter of Sir Dudley Loftus of Killyan,
who after his decease married Sir Edward Tyrrell of
Lynn, the next Captain in this Regiment. The
early ancestry of this family is to be traced in Che-
shire, where it enjoyed the honor of a Baronetcy.
CAPTAIN SIR EDWARD TYRRELL.
Hugh De Lacy, the great Palatine of Meath, in his
settlement of that ' Kingdom,' as it was then yet
designated, gave Castleknock and its lands accounted
therein to his namesake Hugh Tyrrell, whose descend-
ants were hence long after styled Barons of Castle-
knock. In 1302, Gerald Tyrrell and Richard Tyrrell
were two of the ' Fideles ' of Ireland, whose military
services were sought by King Edward for the war in
Scotland. When, in fifteen years after, Edward
Bruce led his rash invasion into Ireland, in his south-
ward march he encamped before Castleknock, and
took the Baron and his Lady prisoners, until soon
aft«r ransomed.* The last Lord of this ancient line
was Hugh Tyrrell, in 1485 ; and, on his death with-
out issue male, the inheritance passed to Christopher
• D'Alton's Hist. Dub. p. 557.
350 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
Bamewall and John Bumell, who had. respectively
married the daughters and co-heiresses of the Chief.
During Tyrone's rebellion in 1597, a Captain Tyr-
rell was sent into Leinster by the ' insurgents,' with a
troop of five hundred men to excite disaffection in
that Province ; " a son of Lord Trimleston was de-
tached with 1,000 men to attack him and his party;
but the experience and address of the rebel leader
supplied the deficiency of his numbers, he gave the
royalists a total defeat, and sent their young
commander a prisoner to O'Neill.* In 1600, the
same Tyrrell it would seem was an active adherent of
Desmond in the Munster war. He it was who
defended the Castle of Cape Clear, and consequently,
in the Instruction given for the prosecution of the
war in Munster, ' Tyrrel ' is mentioned as one of the
* capital rebels' whom his Lordship (the President)
must lose no exertion to take, alive or dead. A
Funeral Entry of 1636, in the Office of Arms, records
the death of Edward Tyrrell of Caverstown, County
of Westmeath, (second son of Edward Tyrrell of do.,
eldest son and heir of Richard Tyrrell of same place);
adding that he married Honora, daughter of John
Tyrrell of Clonmoyle in said County, by whom he
had three sons ; Richard, as yet unmarried, and two
others who died so ; that said Edward took to his se-
cond wife, Elizabeth, daughter of William Eustace of
Clongowes Wood, by whom he had a daughter — dead.
His third wife was Amy, daughter of Richard Sutton
* Leland's Ireland, vol. 2, p. 354.
luttrell's dragoons. 351
of Richardstown, County of Kildare ; by whom he
had one son James. Said first-mentioned Edward
Tyrrell died 11th May, 1636, and was buried at
Castlelost, County of Westmeath. The Attainders of
1642 comprise the names of Henry Tyrrell of
Killussy, County of Kildare ; Peter Tyrrell of Ath-
boy, merchant ; and Thomas Tyrrell of do., with
many others of the name in Westmeath.* In the
same year Colonel Monk, afterwards celebrated as the
Duke of Albemarle, took Castleknock and put many
of the garrison to the sword ; but in November, 1647,
Owen Eoe O'Neill retook this old fortress from the
Republicans. In this latter year, Thomas Tyrrell of
Kilbride was of the Supreme Council at Kilkenny ;
he was therefore, in Cromwell's Act of 1652, excepted
firom pardon for life and estate ; but, by the Act of
Explanation in 1665, was restored to his seat and
three thousand acres.
In particular reference to this Captain Sir Edward
Tyrrel, the Earl of Clarendon, writing to the Earl of
Rochester, says, " On Saturday last in the evening,
one Mr. Edward Tyrrell of the County of Meath
brought me the King's letter for creating him a Baro-
net. He is a very old man, and it were to be
wished His Majesty had good accounts of men before
he conferred marks of honor upon them, which he
* On the Westmeath Forfeitures of this Civil war and the
several patentees thereof, the Book of Survey and Distribution
in that County has been recently copied, compared, and
printed^ to the extent of 126 folios, beautifully executed by John
Charles Lyons, Esq. of Ladiston, a Deputy Lieutenant there.
352 KING JAMES'S IBISH ARMY LIST.
may very easily have if he pleaseth, and still do what he
has a mind to. This gentleman's father was a law-
yer and a Roman Catholic ; what religion he was of
in the time of the Usurper nobody can tell, but he
was employed by them to make a Survey of the
County of Meath, which he did most exactly ; therein
discovering all the secrets with which he was
entrusted. His estate was very small. This gentle-
man has much improved it, as he says that he bought
of new title from soldiers, adventurers, and * 49 ' in-
terest, to the value of about £700 per annum ; of
which it is said he owes £5,000, and is incumbered
with variety of lawsuits He is of any or no re-
ligion, sometimes a Roman Catholic, sometimes a
Protestant."* In the Pariiament of 1689, this in-
dividual sat as one of the Representatives for the
Borough of Belturbet, and there appear of his name,
and possibly kindred, on this Army List, John
Tyrrell, a Captain in the King's Own Foot ; Walter
Tyrrell in Fitz-James's ; and Simon ' Turrill,' a Lieu-
tenant in Colonel Robert Clifford's Dragoons. On
the 7th of April, 1690, King James, 'reposing great
trust and confidence in the honesty and diligence,
care and circumspection of our trusty and well-
beloved Sir Edward Tyrrell,' appointed him supervisor
of the Counties of Cork, Waterford, and Kerry ; with
powers to prevent or punish frauds, neglects, and mis-
demeanours there ; " to preserve our woods, houses,
and parks, and to view our fortifications within the
* Singer's Corresp. of Lord Clarendon, &c., v. 1, p. 883.
luttrell's dragoons. 353
same, and execute all necessary repairs."* In the
King's ecclesiastical appointments of 4th June, 1690,
Doctor Philip Tyrrell was one of those whom His
Majesty presented to the Rectories of Lynn and
Moylesker in the County of Westmeath ; while Doc-
tor John Tyrrell was at the same time presented to
those of Kilmetsan and Galtoon, and another John
Tyrrel to the Rectory of Rathconnel, all in said
County.f It may be observed that amongst the
Roman Catholic Prelates, whom King James immedi-
ately after his accession recommended to the protec-
tion of the Earl of Clarendon, were Doctor Patrick
Tyrrell, R.C. Bishop of Clogher and Kilmore, with
Doctor Dominick Maguire, the R.C. Primate of
Armagh, and the other Irish Roman Catholic Pre-
lates. The first Doctor Tyrrell was Secretary to Lord
Tyrconnel, and amongst papers of his that were taken
by King William's party, was that Lord's * occult ono-
matographie,' to which was a key on a separate sheet,
in which Ireland was designated Barbadoes, &c.|
There were of this name attainted in 1691, the
above Captain Edward of Longwood, Baronet, with
nine of the name in the County of Westmeath, and
three in other parts of the country.§ At the Court of
♦ Harris's MSS. Dub. Soc. v. 10, p. 143.
t De Burgo, Hib. Dom. p. 20.
} Thorpe's Catal. Southwell MSS. p. 183.
§ Hitherto the • Illustrations ' in this Work have been
extended to details, which it is thought prudent henceforth to
abridge as above. In cases, where no particular interest has
been evinced, they might be only irksome to the public at large.
AA
354 KING James's irish army list.
Claims, Gabriel Tyrrell claimed an estate tail especial
in County of Westmeath lands forfeited by Francis
Tyrrell, but his petition was dismist ; as was also a
claim of fiichard Tyrrel for a remainder of 41 years
leasehold, in the lands forfeited by Sir Edward Tyrrell.
The witness to this conveyance was Thomas Ducken*
field, probably the preceding Captain. The daughter
of ^is Sir Edward was a Protestant, and, marrying
Sir John Edgeworth, another Protestant, Longwood
passed into the latter family, in which it remained
unaffected by the penal laws.
LIEUTENANT CHARLES LUCAS.
This Officer seems to have been akin to another
Charles Lucas, the nephew of Sir Charles Lucas who
was shot in 1648, by the Parliament army, on the sur-
render of Colchester. This nephew was ennobled by
the title of Lord Lucas, had a pension of £500 per
ann. on the Establishment of 1687-8, and was, by
warrant of the Lords assembled at Guildhall, Decem-
ber 11th, 1688, the day before James the Second fled
from the palace of Whitehall, appointed Constable of
the Tower of London. In 1661, Edward Lucas, who
seems to have been of the Monaghan lineage, was ap-
pointed a Sub-Commissioner for putting in execution
the King's Declaration for the Settlement of Ireland ;
while in later years flourished in Ireland a namesake
of the lieutenant, the well-known Dr. Charles Lucas,
luttrell's dragoons.
355
commemorated by a fine marble statue in the Royal
Exchange, now the Town-hall of Dublin.
LIEUTENANT HENRY MORLEY,
CORNET ADAM KENNINGS,
CORNET JOHN PERKINS.
None of these names is repeated on the Army List,
nor noted in the Outlawries of 1691. A family of
the * Morieys ' had been settled at Feltrim, in the
County of Dublin; and in the minutes of the Courts-
martial held by the Usurping Power in 1651, &c.,
appears the name of Humphrey Morley^i tried at Naas
on the 27th October, 1652, A family of the name
of Perkins was about the same time settled at Ath-
boy.
REGIMENTS OF DRAGOONS.
COLONEL ROBERT CLIFFORD'S.
CapUma,
ComeU. Quarter.3faster8.
The Gokmel.
AkianderMcKeiuie
Lieat.-Gol.
DOT.
Gonnell FerralL
Oarberry Bryan.
Christopher Ferrall. Daniel Griffin.
HflBzy GroAon.
Myles M«Dennott.
John Crofton,
Tflfvnoe Gogfalan.
Robert Caaack.
Mnet D'AltoD.
Simon TerrilL
William Smith.
Jamei Fitigerald.
William Clifford.
Henrj Clifford.
Simoa Wjrw.
John Maciuwj.
Thomaa Barton.
Chriatopher Fitz-
gerald.
AA 2
356 KING James's irish army list.
COLONEL ROBERT CLIFFORD.
The name of De CliflFord is traced on Irish records from
the time of Henry the Third. In 1227, Simon Clif-
ford granted an annuity of forty shillings (no very
small sum at the time) to the Abbey which he had
refounded at Durrow, in the King's County. The
religious house which previously existed there had
been dilapidated by Sir Hugh de Lacy, as before
mentioned, in 1175. In 1282, William de CliflFord
was Bishop of Emly ; and in 1374, Sir Thomas Clif-
ford was summoned to a Parliament held in Dublin.
In 1597, Sir Conyers CliflFord was governor of Con-
naught; and ih 1600, Sir Alexander CliflFord had the
command of 150 men in the Munster war. Story, in
his Impartial History^ alluding to the movements of
King William's army, relates that on the 31st Decem-
ber, 1690, three Regiments of the Irish, coming down
to the Shannon at the Connaught side near Lanes-
borough, "Colonel CliflFord and the other Irish officers
drank healths over to our men, and those on our side
returned the compliment." In May, 1691, says the
same historian. Captain Johnston, at the head of 100
men, surprised near Ballinamona in the King's County
two troops of CliflFord's Dragoons and a party of Lord
Merrion's Horse. In three months after, at the time
of the death of Tyrconnel, as Harris suggests,* the
Irish began to be jealous of Brigadier CliflFord, (as in
truth they had some reason) but, in consequence of
♦ Life of King WiU. 8, p. 887.
CLIFFORD'S DRAGOONS. 357
the disunion among the principal officers, he was
continued in the command of 1,500 horse to guard
the passes of the Shannon ; and in confirmation of the
justice of that jealousy, the writer adds that " when
the besiegers had finished a bridge into the island of
Limerick, and Colonel Matthews' (Williamite) Dra-
goons began to pass over it. Brigadier Clifford was
posted near the place of passage with four Regiments
of Dragoons, who did not seem very forward, though
they marched down on foot and pretended to give
opposition He was of the moderate party who
were inclined to put an end to the war."* Colonel
O'Kelly, in reference to this inertness, states circum-
stances which clearly establish that Clifford, if innocent
of treachery, was at least guilty of unpardonable
neglect-t "He (says the Colonel) was an Irishman by
birth, his grandfather being of a noble family in Eng-
land who came to Ireland in Queen Elizabeth's days ;
he professed the Roman Catholic religion ; was vain,
of shallow parts, of no great conduct ; and, thoUgh it
cannot be positively averred he was a traitor, yet it
was not prudent in Sarsfield to entrust him with such
a post, as he knew him to be a creature of Tyrconnel's,
to be malcontent, and very unfortunate in all his
undertakings ; and Sarsfield was earnestly desired,
on the morning before that fatal night, by O'Kelly
himself (as the Colonel relies), for whose opinion he
always seemed to have a great value, either to come
♦ life of King WUl. 3, p. 846.
t Excid. Mac, p. 151, &c.
358 KING JAMES'S IBISH AEMT LIST.
in person from Limerick to command at those passes,
or, if he could not come himself, to send Wauchop
thither ; otherwise that the enemy would come over
and besiege the town on both sides ; but there was
some fatality in the matter."
The Earl of Westmeath (whose Regiment of In-
fantry is hereafter alluded to), writing to Harris, the
compiler of the Life of William the Third, on 22nd
August, 1749, further confirms by his experience
Clifford's great neglect: — "This Brigadier commanded
where the bridge was laid over, and by a very great
neglect he made no opposition to it. He was for
that neglect confined in the Castle [of Limerick], and
I believe, if the Articles were not made, he must of
course be condemned by a Court Martial. I had a
Regiment of Horse, and we were encamped on a
mountain within three miles of the bridge, and the
body consisted of 3,000 horse commanded by General
Sheldon ; and, on his hearing an account of Ginkle's
having laid a bridge over the Shannon, and that a
great number both of Horse and Foot had passed it,
he marched with the Horse to Sixmilebridge, which
we passed, and marched the next day to Clare, where
we remained till we made Articles."* After the
Capitulation, Clifford was particularly active in en-
deavouring to bring over the Irish soldiers to the
English service,! and his own Regiment is represented
as having exhibited the most numerous defections to
* Excidium Macariae, p. 481.
t O'Conors Milit. Mem. p. 188.
Clifford's dragoons. 859
the new interest. His Attainder bears date 11th
May, 1691, and he is thereon described as Robert
CUflFord of Dublin, Esq.
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL ALEXANDER MAC
KENZIE.
Nothing has been ascertained of this evidently Scotch
officer, though information hss been sought from the
Baronet of Coul, in Rossbire, of whose ancestry it is
conjectured he was.
CAPTAIN CONNELL FERRALL.
The Principality of this illustrious Irish Sept was
Annaly, covering a large portion of the present County
of Longford ; and, from the earliest use of surnames
in Ireland, the achievements, succession, and obits of
their Tanists or Captains, the many religious houses
they founded, and the castles they erected, are
recorded in the native annals. They have been
Bishops and Abbots of the highest rank, and, although
located on the debateable borders of the Pale, have
intermarried with the noblest houses of the English
Settlers. The Four Masters relate that Gildas O'Fer-
ral, leader of the Annaly Sept, Chief Arbitrator of
Ireland, died in 1141 at an advanced age. In 1203,
Amalgaid OTerral, then Abbot of Derry, was elected
360 KING JAMES'S IRISH AEMT LIST.
Abbot of lona. Later in this century the OTerrals
founded Abbey ^hrule for Cistercian monks, and the
friary of Ballynasaggard for Franciscans : both es-
tablishments being in the present County of Longford.
In 1299, Florence OTerral died Bishop of Emly,
and Ueft behind him a great reputation for his alms-
deeds, hospitality, and other good works.,* In 1314,
GeflFrey OTerral of * Montravy ' was summoned by
King Edward to the Scottish war. In 1347, Owen
OTerral succeeded to the See of Ardagh, as did Char-
les OTerral in 1373. In 1400, the noble Dominican
Friary of Longford was founded by the Chief, in
which Cornelius OTerral, who died Bishop of Ardagh
in 1424, was buried. In 1486, William OTerraU,
himself the Dynast of Annaly, was Bishop of Ardagh,
and continued to discharge the double duties of the
prelacy and the Chiefry.f In 1 541 , Richard OTerrall,
Abbot of Larha and Dynast of Annaly, had a similar
charge of the Diocese of Ardagh. In 1565, Sir
Henry Sidney first erected * Annaly of the OTerralls'
into the Shire of Longford. In 1583, Lysach OTer-
ral, a conformist, obtained the See of Ardagh from
Queen Elizabeth ; and in 1587, Thady OTerral was
Bishop of Clonfert. Two years previously, in Per-
rons Parliament, the sept was represented by the
Captains of two diverging lines ; viz. William, son of
Donal, son of Cormac OTerrall ; and Fachtna, son of
Bryan, son of Roderic, son of Cathal OTerrall ; yet
♦ Ware's Bishops, p. 271. f Wem, p. 254.
CLIFFORD'S DRAGOONS, 361
both their territories were soon after included in the
plantation scheme of James the First, and an enquiry
was directed to ascertain the extent of their estates.
This measure almost wholly cast the Sept out of their
old territory ; and in 1610, by the marriage of Amy,
daughter of Cormac OTerral, with Captain George
Lane, a portion passed to that family, the grandson of
which marriage was the first Viscount Lanesborough.
The Attainders of 1642 comprise the names of Ge-
raid 0' ' Farrel,' of Kill, Clerk ; Dionysius Ferrel, of
Kildrought, County of Kildare ; and Nicholas Farrel
of Kill, merchant. Amongst the Confederate Catho-
lies who were assembled at Kilkenny in 1647,
were Donel OTerrall of Enniscorthy, Fergus OTer-
rall of Bleamclogher, and Francis OTerrall of
Moate. Colonel Richard OTerrall was then a dis-
tinguished oflScer in the service of Owen Roe O'Neill.
The Declaration of Royal gratitude, for services be-
yond the seas, includes Captain Gerald Ferrall, Ensign
John Ferrall, Colonel Lewis OTerrall, Sir Connell
Ferrall of Tirlickin, County of Longford (who seems
to be identical with the above Captain Connell), with
Charles Ferrall, and Francis Ferrall of Momin in the
same County. Besides the above Captain Connell
Ferrall, there are on this Army List Fergus Farrell a
Captain in Colonel Richard Nugent's Infantry, and
Gerald Farrell a Lieutenant, and Fergus Farrell an
Ensign in Colonel Oliver O'Gara's (late Colonel Iriell
Farrell's). In the Parliament of 1689, Roger and
Robert Ferrall were the Representatives of the County
of Longford, as was another Roger Ferrall one of
362 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMT LIST.
those for Lanesborough. The above Captain Connell
(or more correctly, it wotdd seem, Sir Connell Ferrall)
was early advanced to be a Lientenant-Colonel ; and
he, as Mackenzie relates, was in 1688 ordered out
firom Boyle, with the Dartry Irish to the number of
four or five hundred, to oppose the Enniskilleners.
He was afterwards killed at the siege of Deny, as
was also a Captain Ferrall.*
The Attainders of 1691 present the names of eight
of the Sept in the County of Longford, and one in
each of the Counties of Westmeath, Roscommon,
Tyrone, and the City of Dublin ; and at Chiches-
ter House many claims were made as attaching on
the Longford estates of OTerralls ; they are, however,
too numerous to detail here. On the 10th of July,
1703, the Duke of Marlbro' wrote to the Duke of
Ormond, in regard to an officer of this name, " I give
your Grace this trouble at the request of my old ac-
quaintance Brigadier ^ Ofiarel ;' though &lling now
under your Grace's government, I cannot but recom-
mend him to your protection ; and pray that as he
may have occasion to apply himself to your Grace,
you will please to aflFord him your favourable counte-
nance, as well on account of his own merit as for the
sake of your Grace's, &. &c. MARLBRO'.f Diana,
daughter of this Brigadier, married Francb, after-
wards created Earl of Effingham, from which union
this noble house has sprung.
* Mac Kenzie's Siege of Derry, p. 17.
t Murray's Marlborough Despatches, v. 1, p. 136.
CLIFFORD'S DRAGOONS. 363
The notice of this Sept cannot be closed without
expressing a regret, that the compiler has in vain
sought the free inspection of a * Diary ' of the above
Brigadier, where it is known to exist.
CAPTAIN HENRY CROFTON.
In 1606, Edward Crofton had a grant from the Crown
of several rectories, vicarages, priories, tithes,
and lands in the Counties of Sligo and Roscommon.
He is described in the patent as Edward, " son of
John Crofton of Connaught" His grandson and
namesake, Edward Crofton of Moate, was created a
Baronet, and married Mary, daughter of the justly
venerated Sir James Ware. The above Captain
Henry Crofton was SheriflF of the County of Sligo in
1687, and one of its Representatives in the Parlia-
ment of 1689. He was attainted in 1691, and from
him is lineally descended the present Sir Malby
Crofton, Baronet, who represents the elder branch of
this family in Ireland. Another Henry Crofton was
Captain in the Earl of Clanricarde's Infantry, and
seems to have been the Captain Henry adjudged
within -the Articles of Limerick. The Attainders of
1691, besides this Captain Henry, name John Crof-
ton, described as of Ruppagh, County of Mayo.
364 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY UST.
CAPTAIN TERENCE COGHLAN.
The Sept of Mac Coghlan was one of those eligible to
the dignity of Kings of Leinster, and at a very
remote period was possessed of Dealbhna Eathra, the
present Baitony of Garrycastle in the King's County.
The ruins'of seven castles in that County attest their
former importance there. In 1134, say the Four
Masters, died Aodh (Hugh), grandson of Loughlin
Mac *Cochlan,' Lord of Dealbhna Eathra, as did
Randall Mac Coghlan the Chief in 1187, and Mur-
rough Mac Coghlan in 1199. In 1213, Melaghlin
Mac Coghlan, * Prince of Dealbhna,' died on pilgrim-
age at the Abbey of Eolbeggan. In 1386, Conor
Mac Coghlan died the Chief. John Mac Coughlan
was Bishop of Clonmacnoise in 1427. In 1520, died
Turlough, son of Phelim Mac Coghlan, the Lord of
Delvin, by whom the Castles of Feadan and Kincora
were erected. . In the following year the Masters
record a * dividing of Delvin, by the authority of Mel-
aghlin and O'CarroU, between Ferdoragh, the son of
the last Mac Coghlan, and his relative Cormac ;' and,
on the death of this Ferdoragh in 1535, * Phelim, son
of Meyler Mac Coghlan, took his place.' Cormac, the
tanist of a moiety, died in the preceding year, and in
his line the Chieftaincy appears to have been recog-
nbed; at least, on the convening oif the Irish Septs
in Perrot's Parliament, this was represented by John,
son of Art, son of Cormac Mac Coghlan. In Decem-
ber, 1641, the Marquis of Clanricarde accused the
CLIFFORD'S DRAGOONS. 365
O'Mulloys, Coghlans, Geoghegans, &c., of passing out
of the King's County and prejdng over that of
Galway. In the following year, however, he made
especial mention of Terence Coghlan, then proprietor
of Kilcolgan in the fonner County, as * a person of
great worth and ability,' — ' whom himself confidenti-
ally employed ;' * a gentleman of very good parts
and ability, and of a disposition and integrity suit-
able thereto.' The Outlawries of 1642 include John
Coghlan of Wicklow, Dennod Mac-Teigue Coghlan of
Long Island, County of Cork ; and Donough Mac-
Teigue O'Coghlan of do. In the Assembly of Confed-
erate Catholics (1647), the Reverend Charles Cogh-
lan was an active member ; he was Vicar-General of
the Diocese of Leighlin ; while John and Terence
Coghlan were of the Commons in that meeting. The
latter individual appears identical with this Captain,
who also sat in the Parliament of 1689 as Represent-
ative for the Borough of Banagher. The Royal
Declaration of gratitude, embodied in the Act of Set-
tlement for * services beyond the seas,' includes Lieu-
tenants Simon Coghlan and Francis Coghlan of Bel-
clare ; while the Act of Explanation, three years
afterwards, restored the latter, described as Francis
Coghlan of Kilcolgan, King^s County, to his family
mansion and 2,000 acres, with a saving for Dame
Mary, widow of the above Terence, in lieu of her
jointure.
On this Army list, besides Captain Terence, John
* Mc Coghlan ' was a Captain in Lord Galway's
366 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
Infantry, and Cornelius Coghlan a Lieutenant. In
Colonel Heward Oxburgh's, John Coghlan was a
Captain, and Edmund Coghlan an Ensign. In
King James's Parliament, Captain Terence and ano-
ther Terence Coghlan, probably his son, represented
Banagher ; and Joseph Coghlan was one of the Mem-
bers for Trinity College, Dublin ; but, according to Dr.
King, this latter having been a Protestant, would not
sit out the Acts of Attainder there passed. The
Attainders of 1691 include Captain Terence Coghlan,
four others of the County of Cork, two of the King's
County, one of the Queen's County, and one olf
Limerick. Sundry claims were made at Chichester
House as affecting their confiscations, and some were
allowed.
In 1704, a private Act was passed to prevent the
disinheriting of Captain Garret Coghlan, and another
in 1706 for the relief of Captain James Coghlan and
Felix Coghlan, the surviving Protestant sons of John
Coghlan, Esq., they having petitioned for such relief
in regard to some defects in the Act of 1704. In
1746, Quarter-Master Coghlan was one of the prison-
ers taken on board the Bourbon by Commodore
Knowles.*
It is said that the last Representative of note of
this ancient family was Thomas Mac Coghlan, who was
on§ of the Members for Banagher in the Irish Parlia-
ment, and died in 1790. In the year 1828, however,
died in London Lieutenant-Colonel Edmond Cogh-
lan, who had been Governor of Chester ; and his
♦ Gent. Mag. vol. 16, p. 145.
CLIFFORD'S DRAGOONS. 367
obituary states him to have been second son of the
late Mr. James Coghlan of Cloghan in the King's
County, by Miss Hearne of Hearnesbrook, County of
Galway. The notice adds that a remnant of about
£7,000 per ann. of the family property is now vested
in the Honorable Frederic Ponsonby, to whom it
came in the maternal line of inheritance. This Officer,
(Lieutenant-Colonel Edmund) was buried in St.
James's Church, his only son and his brother Colonel
Andrew Coghlan being the chief mourners, and a
number of the Members of the United Service Club
attending the obsequies. In six years after, died at
Brighton Lieutenant-General Roger jDoghlan, who
commenced his career in the Connaught Rangers in
1779 ; he accompanied that Regiment to Jamaica, and
was afterwards in the 60th at Nova Scotia ; then in the
66th, in the 134th, and the 82nd ; on which last oc-
casion he obtained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in
1796, and in 1819 the brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel.
CAPTAIN MILES D'ALTON.
The tradition of the introduction of this family from
France to Ireland, as preserved in the Office of Arms,
records Walter D'Alton to have been its founder ;
that he secretly married a daughter of Louis, King of
France, and, having thereby incurred this Monarch's
displeasure, fled to England, whence he passed with
Henry the Second on the invasion of Ireland. He
368 RING James's iRisn army list.
early acquired possessions in the Western portion of
Meath, where he and liis descendants founded religi-
ous houses and erected castles.
In 1328, the English forces, including the D'Altons
(who from the time of their settling in Western Meath
were the chief bidwark of the Pale in that direction),
sustained a dreadful defeat near Mullingar ; when,
according to the Four Masters, 3,500 of their army,
'together with the D'Altons,' were slain. At the
siege of Calais in 1346, under the gallant English
King, Robert D'Alton was one of his Knights ; while
in the Parliament of Westminster, in 1376, William
D'Alton sat as one of the Representatives of the
County of Cork.* The district, however, where the
name was first planted, witnessed its extension so
widely, that, when in the time of Henry the Eighth,
(1545) the western portion of Meath was separated
and erected into a distinct County by the title of
Westmeath, a very large tract especially described as
* the D'Alton's Country ' was, with that alias, consti-
tuted the Barony of Rathconrath. . The D'Alton had
previously ranked as a Palatine Baron thereof^ under
an early grant of that dignity from Hugh De Lacy ;
and he and his descendants adopted the fieur^e4i8
on * their ' armorials, as in right of the daughter of
Louis. Throughout the centuries of this their resi-
dence in Ireland, they supported their rank and influ-
ence by alliances not only with the noble native
families, but likewise with the most illustrious of
Anglo-Norman descent ; while in the progress of time
* Leland's Ireland, y. 1, p. 89^ 2>%^*
CLIFFORD'S DRAGOONS. 369
members of the House branched into the Counties of
Kilkenny, Waterford, and Tipperary.
A Funeral Entry in the Office of Arms, Dublin,
records the death in July, 1 636, of John D'Alton of
Dundonell, County of Westmeath, son and heir of
Hubert D'Alton, eldest son of Henry D' Alton, eldest
son of Edmund, eldest son of Henry, eldest son of
John, (all of Dundonell) eldest son of Pierce D'Alton
of Ballymore in said County, whose death, as son of
an elder Pierce, is attributed to the plague of 1467.
The first named John had married Elinor, daughter
of Gerald Dillon of Portlick in said County, by-whom
he had five sons ; 1st. Garret, married to Margaret
Plunket of Loughcrew, County of Meath ; 2nd. Rich-
ard ; 3rd. Robert ; 4th. James ;* 5th. Thomas, un-
married. Said John, the defunct, was buried in
Churchtown. None of this name appear on the Out-
lawries of 1642, but many fell in the contests that
immediately preceded, and estates were then forfeited
in Westmeath by Oliver, Nicholas, Richard, Garret,
Henry, Edmund, John, GeoflSry, Walter, Theobald,
and James Dalton, respectively. In 1662, Lieute-
nant Alexander D'Alton received the Royal thanks in
the Act of Settlement.
Besides this Myles, there are on the Army List
* It may be permitted to remark that this James, the fourth
son of John D'Alton of DundoneU, married Mary or Margaret
Purdon, and was the great grandfather of the compiler of the
present volume. This single entry therefore suggests a retro-
spective pedigpree of eleven generations for one, who is now the
on/y D'Alton inheriting a fee-simple estate in the old barony.
BB
370 KL\G JAMES'S IRISH AR3IY LIST.
Walter D'Alton, (who appears to have been of the
family of Kildallon) a Lieutenant in the Royal Re-
giment of Infantry. In Colonel Henry Dillon's, t^vo
John D'Altons were Captains, Richard a Lieutenant,
and a third John an Ensign. In Colonel John
Grace's, Walter ' Daton ' and John D' Alton were
Lieutenants ; and in Sir Michael Creagh's, Richard
D'Alton wjis a Captain. One of these Officers, a
Capttiin D'Alton, was taken prisoner at the siege of
Athlone.* The Attainders of 1691 include the above
Captain Myles ' of Grangebeg, County of Westmeath,'
with seventeen othere of the name in Westmeath,
three in Wexford, three in Kilkeimy, and one in
Dublin. Of these outlaws, Christopher D'Alton of
Miltown, Major John D'Alton of Doneele, and
William his son, with Edward D'Alton' of Cleg,
County of Wexford, were adjudged within the
Articles. At the Court of Claims, James D'Alton, then
a minor, by Walter Delamer, his guardian, claimed an
estate in fee in lands forfeited by Garret D'Alton.
Elizabeth D'Alton, widow, claimed dower off Doneele,
forfeited by Major John D'Alton ; Richard and Mary
D'Alton, minors, by Bryan Kelly their prochain ami^
claimed a mortgage affecting County of Roscommon
estates, (including Lough-Glynn, &c.,) of Richard
D'Alton ; John Adams claimed an estate in fee in the
lands of Irishtown and Raheenquin forfeited by
D'Alton ; but his jxitition was disallowed.
In 1725, Thomas D'Alton was appointed Chief
Baron of the Irish Exchequer, in five years after
* Story's Impartial History, part 2, p. 108.
gliffobd'8 dragoons. 371
which he died. Captain * Daton' was one of those in
Rothe's Regiment wounded in 1 747, at the battle of
LauflBield, near Maestricht. Other members of the
family were distinguished in the services of foreign
states, and created Counts of the Holy Roman Em-
pire ; as Count Richard D'Alton, the too memorable
agent of the Emperor Joseph in the oppressions of
Brabant ; and Major-General James D'Alton, Gover-
nor of Gratz, from which he removed to Brussels.
Christopher D' Alton of Grenanstown was Chamber-
lain and Colonel of the Guards to His Electoral High-
ness of Saxony, and died at Richmond near Dublin,
in 1793.* Edward D'Alton brother of said Chris-
topher, was Chamberlain and Major-General in the
service of the Emperor of Austria. He was killed in
the trenches at Dunkirk, when in 1793 that town
was besieged by the Duke of York.
CAPTAIN SIMON WYER.
He was attainted in 1691, as of Lea, Queen's
County ; James Wyer of Kilbeggan was then also
outlawed.
CAPTAIN JOHN MACKEWY.
Tffls name does not otherwise occur in the Army
List, or at all on the Attainders.
Hib. V. 2, p. 820.
bb2
372 KING James's irisu army list.
LIEUTENANT THOMAS BURTON.
Neither is this name re|)eated on the Army List, nor
is it at all on the Attainders. Robert Burton was
Constable of Castle Mac-Kinnegan, County of Wick-
low, in 1309 ; soon after which William de Burton
was one of the Remembrancers of the Irish Exchequer.
A Lieutenant-Colonel ' Burston ' was the Irish
Engineer when Bally more was besieged by de Ginckle;
and on his death, he having been slain in the defence,
the garrison surren<lered at discretion.*
QUARTER-MASTER DANIEL GRIFFIN.
A NATIVE Sept of the O'Griffin is traceable in the An-
nals of Ireland, while it would appear that the same
name, without the Milesian prefix, came early from
Pembrokeshire into this country.
In 1199, Daniel O'Griffin died Abbot of the Abbey
of Canons Regular of Roscommon. Matthew Fitz-
Griffin was summoned hence in 1220 to the war in
Britanny, and in 1257, say the Four Masters, Mac
GriflBin, an illustrious Knight, was taken prisoner by
O'Donnell's people. In 1375, O'Molroney O'Griffin,
having made his submission to the English govern-
ment as Captain of his Sept, he and his three brothers
obtained liberty to use the English law ; about which
time Matthew 'Mac Griffin' founded a Priory for
♦ O'Callaghans Excid. Mac. p. 419.
CLIFFORD'S DRAGOONS. 373
Canons Regular of St. Augustine at Tullylesk in the
County of Cork, which was afterwards united to that
of Kells (Kenlis) in the County of Kilkenny.* In
1398, John GriflSn was appointed Bishop of Ossory,
as was Michael Griffin to be Chief Baron of the Irish
Exchequer in 1446. In 1601, DermodO"Griffien' was
one of the Irish who fled to Spain after the result of
the Munster war.f In 1643, Walter Griffin, de-
cribed as of Hacketstown, County of Wicklow, was
attainted. The name of this Quarter-Master does
not appear upon the Attainders of 1691, but only
Murtogh Griffin, described as 'of Dublin,' and George
and Thomas Griffin of Knocksymon, County of West-
meath ; while in Ulster, Hugo ' O'Gribbin' of Killeg-
neen, Henry O'Gribbin of Glenbuck, and Richard
O'Gribbin of Clogher, all in the County of Antrim,
were outlawed.
A Lord Griffin, it may be here observed, followed
the fortunes of James the Second through all his
wanderings ; and at the time of the Revolution main-
tained personal fidelity to the unfortunate Exile.
"He had been Lieutenant-General of that Regiment
of his Guards, which bore the name of the Coldstream.
Coming over from France in the Pretender's interest,
he was captured in the Salisbury by Sir George
Byng in 1708, and was tried and condemned to be
beheaded ; but Queen Anne, well knowing the ad
herence of the old Jacobite to her father, could not
• ArchdaU's Mon. Hib. p. 80.
t Pacata Hibcrnia. p. 426.
374
KING James's irish army list.
be prevailed upon to sign the death-warrant, and he
was thus regularly respited every month, until his
death in the Tower in 1710.'^
REGIMENTS OF DRAGOONS.
COLONEL FRANCIS CARROLL'S, FORMERLY COLONEL THOMAS
TRANT'S, formerly sir JAMES COTTER'S.
Captains.
Comets.
Quarter-Matlien.
The Colonel.
Piers Power.
Arthur Hide.
Richard Bany.
Stephen Galway.
James Connell.
David MoakelL
Lieut. Colonel.
Terence Carroll,
Major.
John Taylor.
John Kirwan.
Dominick Lynch.
Stephen Lawless.
Edward Rice.
John Lacy.
WiUiam Bourke.
Kenedy Me Kenedy.
Peter Lavallen.
Matthew Lavallen.
Patrick Stanton.
Patrick Stanton.
Arthur Galway.
Nicholas Barry.
William Collins.
John Fennell.
Sir Thomas Croeby. Thomaa Lycett.
John Winnetta.
Charles Geoghegan.
Robert Qoold.
Edward ShewelL
John Barry.
George Moore.
Teigue O'Lyne.
Dermot Donworth.
Jasper Grant.
James Barry.
Henry Wilse.
Wniiam Baker.
Henry Coppinger.
James Coppinger.
John Fitzgerald.
Thomas Dynneen.
COLONEL FRANCIS CARROLL.
The Officers who commanded this Regiment previous
to Colonel Carroll were, Colonel Thomas Trant, of
* Miss .Strickland'^ Queens of England, v. 12, p. 21-1.
CARROLL'S DRAGOONS. 375
whom hereafter ; and Colonel Sir James Cotter, the
lineal ancestor of Sir James Laurence Cotter of Rock-
forest, County of Cork, Baronet.
The chief notices of this ancient Irish Sept have
been collected at ' Captain James Carroll,' of Lord
Dongan's Dragoons. It but remains to observe,
that the Colonel here brought forward was previous-
ly Lieutenant-Colonel of that Lord's Dragoons. In
the Lansdowne Manuscripts in the British Museum,
are some papers which appear to have been rough
drafts of King James's correspondence with the Irish
Executive before the Revolution, and which the Rev.
Mr. Rowan of Belmont, County of Kerry, conjectures
to have been Sunderland's papers. One of these,
(without date) directed to the Lords Justices, the
Right Reverend Father, &c. &c. runs thus : — "Where-
as we thought fit by our instructions to you, bearing
date the 27th of March last, to direct you to cause
the oaths of allegiance and supremacy to be adminis-
tered to all oflBicers and soldiers of our army there,
and to all Governors of Towns, Forts, Castles ; and to
cashier and dismiss our service such of them as shall
reftise the said oaths or either of them ; and whereas
we have been pleased to withhold Richard Talbot,
Colonel of a Regiment of Horse ; Col. Justin Macar-
tie, Colonel of a Regiment of Foot ; Rene Carney and
Dominick Sheldon, Captains to the Duke of Ormonde;
Anthony Hamilton, Lieutenant-Colonel to Sir Thomas
Newcomen's Regiment of Foot ; William Dorrington,
M^jor to Colonel Fairfax ; Patrick Lawless, Major
376 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
to Colonel Macartie ; * and Francis Carroll^ Captain
to said Colonel's Company ; all in our army, to dis-
pense as we do hereby disjiense accordingly with their
taking the said oaths or either of them : our will and
pleasure is, and we do by these presents charge and
require you to give effectual orders from time to time
for mustering the said officers, notwithstanding their
not having taken the said oaths or either of them."
"On thellth of April, 1691," says Story, ",ColonelMac
Fineen's, Colonel Mac Carty's, and two morejRegiments,
making in all about 1,500 men, commanded by Brig-
adier Carroll, came to Iniskean with a design to have
that place and some other small garrisons near it, as
steps to further advance upon our frontiers ;"f but
the assailants were driven off by Colonel Ogleby. In
the following month. Brigadier Francis Carroll was
stationed at Ross, and acting as Governor* and Com-
mander-in-Chief of His Majesty's army in the Counties
of Kerry and Cork. (See post^ at Colonel * Daniel
O'Donovan.') A Colonel Carroll was taken pri-
soner at Aughrim, while, in the August following,
after De Ginkle with his army had passed the Shan-
non, Anthony Carroll, (surnamed Fada^ the tall), a
gentleman of Tipperary who possessed much influence
vrith the Rapparees, and who could, according to
Story, bring together to the number of at least 2,000
men, was Governor of Nenagh, a position which he
continued to hold during the autumn and vrinter of
♦ See his death in 168G, ante^ p. 205.
t Story's Impartial History, pt. 2, p. 65.
cakboll's dragoons. 377
1690, and the spring and summer of 1691, making
frequent hostile excursions through the County. On
the 2nd of August in that year he set fire to the
town, in opposition to the movements of Brigadier
Levison, who was making with his party to Limerick;
but the fire was soon put out by some prisoners of the
Williamites who were in the town. The Diary here
cited,* adds that " Brigadier Levison with his Horse
and Dragoons pursued Carroll and his party so closely
and so far, that within four miles of Limerick he took
all their baggage ; amongst which were two rich
coats of long Anthony Carroll's, one valued at eighty
pounds, the other at forty guineas, and about forty
pistoles in gold ; as also 450 head of black cattle and
some sheep, which the enemy's sudden flight would
not suffer them to carry off."
Amongst those attainted in 1691 were Eugene
Carroll, Queen's County ; the above Francis Carroll,
styled of Dublin ; Keene Carroll of Aughgurty, King's
County ; John Mulroney Carroll, of Do. John Carroll
of Cappoquin (he is buried in the churchyard of Dun-
kerron, near Roscrea); Patrick Carroll of Aherna,
County of Wicklow ; and John Carroll of Ballindoon,
County of Sligo.
This Colonel Franois was, on the formation of the
Irish Brigades in France, constituted Colonel of the
* Queen's Dismounted Dragoons,' at the head of
which he fell in the battle of Marsaglia in Italy, in
October, 1693.t
♦ Harleian MSS. vol. 7, p. 480.
t O'Callaghan's Brigades, vol. 1, p. 81.
378 KING James's irish army list.
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL
After this List was drawn up, Thomas Carroll was
appointed first Lieutenant-Colonel and Francis Bois-
meral, second.
CAPTAIN JOHN TAYLOR.
The escallops in the armorials of this family afford
heraldic evidence of their achievements in the Holy
Land. Tliey passed at a very early period from France
into England, where they are traced in the records of
the Southern and Midland Counties. In the reign of
Henry the Third, Edward Taylor of Beverley in
Yorkshire was Chief Falconer to liis Sovereign, and
his second son, Nicholas, having passed into Ireland
in 1273, became the founder of the Taylors of
Swords. The lineal descendant and heir male, Alex-
ander Taylor, by his marriage with Agnes, daughter
of William Swinnock, acquired the inheritance of
Swords, and built a mansion house within that town.
His descendant Richard Taylor was in 1543 joined
in a Commission, to try and decide what temporal
and spiritual possessions within the County of Dublin
became vested in the Crown by the dissolution of
monasteries. George Taylor of this line was after-
wards Recorder of Dublin, its Rcpresentiitivc in Sir
John Perrot's Parliament of 1585, and its Sheriff in
1586.
Carroll's dragoons. ' 379
In the Parliament of 1639, John, heir of Michael
Taylor of Swords, was Member for that Borough. He
married Mary, daughter of John Fagan of Feltrim, by
whom he had John Taylor his heir, whose privations
and sufferings in resisting a transplantation into
Connaught up to the time of the Restoration, when
he obtained a decree confirmatory of his old estate at
Swords, are fiilly detailed in a Manuscript preserved
by the family. He died in 1680, and the above
Captain John was his second son, but became his heir
on the death of his elder brother Michael, in 1684,
without issue. He was one of the Burgesses in the
new Charter granted by King James to his town, and
married jirst^ Alice, daughter of Browne of
Clongowes Wood, (by whom he had one daughter) ;
and second^ Helen, daughter of Richard Fagan of
Feltrim, by whom he had, with several other children,
John his heir, whose grandson, James Joseph Taylor,
now represents this ancient family in the seventeenth
generation from the falconer of Beverley. His
sister, Jane-Elizabeth, who married Josiah Forster,
formerly of St. Croix in the West Indies, died a few
years since, leaving James Fitz-Eustace Forster their
only issue.* This name of Fitz-Eustace was intro-
duced into the family through the grandmother of
Mrs. Forster, Anne Fitz-Eustace, daughter of
Fitz-Eustace, of Cradockstown, County of Kildare, by
a daughter of Patrick Sutton of Morristown-Lattin in
the same County. John, Thomas and Robert Taylor,
♦ D'Altons ffistory of the County of Dublin, p. 295, &c.
380 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
all of Swords, were attainted in 1642 ; the above
Captain John was the only one of this name outlawed
in 1691.
CAPTAIN PETER LEVALLIN.
Besides this Captain Peter, Patrick * Lavallin ' was
an Ensign in Lord Mountcashel's Infantry. In the
Attainders of 1691 the former was described as of
Waterstown, County of Cork ; the latter of Rohara,
in said County ; where were then also outlawed
Matthew Levallin of Great Island ; Thomas Levallin
of Moyallow and of Cork, merchant ; and Janette
Levallin of Dublin, spinster. At the Court of
Claims, James Levallin claimed a remainder in special
tail male, expectant on the death of Melchior Levallin
his father, in County of Cork lands forfeited by the
above Peter Levallin and Jane his wife ; while Mel-
chior himself at the same time claimed an estate tail
in part, and an estate for life in the remainder of
said lands. Digby Foulke claimed and was al-
lowed an interest in Cork lands forfeited by Jane
Levallin, daughter of Patrick ' Lavallin,' as did the
aforesaid Melchior a mortgage affecting said last
mentioned forfeitures, with similar adjudication in his
favour.
CARROLL'S DRAGOONS. 381
CAPTAIN ARTHUR GALWAY.
From a period early in the fourteenth century this
name is found on the records of the Counties of
Waterford and Cork. In 1229, Alan de ' Galweye/
and Galwaye had military summons directed to
them for services in the war in Britanny. In
1605, the King granted to Dominick Sarsfield the
wardship of Walter Galway, son and heir of John
Galway, late of Cork, deceased, for the yearly sum of
£5 9s. 8d. Irish, and the payment of all rents and
other rights due to the Crown, the said Dominick re-
taining thereout the usual allowances for maintenance
and education of the minor. A funeral entry of
1636, in the Ulster Office of Arms, records the death
in March of this year at Kinsale of Sir Jefl&^y
Galway, a Limerick Baronet, eldest son of Alderman
James Galway of Limerick, eldest son of Jeffrey
Galway of Kinsale ; where he was interred in the
monument of his ancestors. Of this first named Sir
Jeffrey, it is said in the Pacata Hibemia* that " he
had spent many years in England in studying the
common laws, and, returning into Ireland about the
year 1597, did so pervert the City of Limerick of
which he was one time Mayor, that by his malicious
counsel and 'perjurious' example he withdrew the
Mayor, Aldermen, and generally the whole City from
coming to the Church, which before they had some-
♦ P. 196, &c. Christie's edition.
382 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
times frequented." The | same work alleges instances
of his contumacy and disobedience to military power.
The Attainders of 1642 present the names of a Sir
Jeflfrey Galway, Baronet, described as of Typananbeg ;
with those of John Fitz-Christopher Galway and
William David Galway of Blarney^ County of Cork.
On the present Army List, Walter Galway appears,
also a Captain, in Lord Kilmallock's Infantry. In
the Parliament of 1689, John Galway sat as one of
the Representatives of the City of Cork. Of those at-
tainted in 1691 were the above Captain Arthur
Galway, described as of Ballycoghane, County of
Cork ; with ten others of the name in that County.
The estates of this Arthur Galway in the City of
Cork were sold by the Trustees of the Forfeitures to
Daniel Gibbs, and Edward Bennett of Cork, mer-
chant, and another portion to George Baghtye of
Cork, cutler ; as were other his estates in the
Liberties of Cork to Edward Webber, William Wake-
ham of Barry's Court, Abraham Dixon, and Humph-
rey Sheaves of Cork severally ; as also to the Hollow
Swords' Blades Company and to Thomas Hodder of
Ballyea. The estates of the other oflScer, Walter
Galway, in West Carbury, County of Cork, were then
sold to Hugh Hutchinson of Black Rock in said
County.
Carroll's dragoons. 383
*
CAPTAIN SIR THOMAS CROSBY.
John Crosby succeeded to the Sees of Ardfert and
Aghadoe, by the Queen's provision, in 1600. Of those
attainted in 1642 were Sir John Crosby of Waters-
town, County of Kildare, and Walter Crosby of Gort-
maskohe. This Sir John was the grandson of Patrick
Crosby, to whom Queen Elizabeth granted a noble
estate in the Queen s County, in reward for his ser-
vices towards ' exterminating ' the O'Mores of Leix.
Part of the lands thereby granted, viz. Ballyfin, the
demesne of the Chief of that Sept, was, on Sir John's
confiscation, granted to Periam Pole, brother of Sir
John Pole of Shute in Devonshire. The above
Captain Sir Thomas is described in the Inquisition of
his Attainder, as " of Tralee, Knight." In the Parlia-
ment of 1689 he sat as one of the Representatives of
the County of Kerry. Those attainted with him
were David Crosby of Ardfert, and Maurice Crosby
of Knockmar, Queen's County.
CAPTAIN JOHN .WINNETTS.
This name does not appear again in the Army List,
nor at all on the Attainders.
384 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
CAPTAIN JOHN BARRY.
This illustrious name occurs in the earliest records of
Ireland, and in especial association with the County
of Cork, where the Barry was raised with grants of
large possessions, and a succession of titles in the
Peerage, from Baron Barry to Viscount Buttevant
and Earl of Barrymore. Of the Irish magnates who
in 1302 attended Edward the First in his campaign
against the Scots, were William de Barry, Odo (Hugh)
de Barry, David de Barry of Rathcormack, Philip de
Barry of Rincorran, William Fitz-Phillip Barry, and
William Fitz-William Barry.* In 1507, say the
Four Masters, " The Barry Roe of Cork, i.e. James,
the son of James, accompanied by the Chiefs of his
people, proceeded on a pilgrimage to Spain, and, after
having performed the pilgrimage, they got on board
of a ship to return, and no tidings of their being liv-
ing or dead was ever received.'' The same Annalists,
at 1580, furnish an interesting genealogical notice of
this noble family. " Barry More, i.e. James, the son
of Richard, son of Thomas, son of Edward, who was
imprisoned in Dublin, died. That James was of the
real genealogical stock of Barry Roe ; and he was a
man who suffered, in the early part of his life, much
trouble and affliction, and he had no hope or expecta-
tion of ever obtaining the title of Barry Roe ; but,
however, God granted him the Captainship of Barry
Maol and also of Barry Roe ; (Barry Maol or the
* Rymer's Fcedera, ad arm.
CARROLL'S DRAGOONS. 385
hold Bany, and also Barry Ruadh or red Barry, were
native designations borne by two branches of this
family) ; and not these alone, for he was nominated
Chief of Banymore, after the destruction of those
whose rightfal inheritance it was to possess that title
till then. His son David Barry was afterwards nomi-
nated the Barry by the Earl of Desmond, and
another son of his was according to law Lord of
Barry Roe.''
In 1641 "Philip Barry Oge, (styled of Rincorran)
was amongst the earliest who took up arms against
the English ; and, being master of the camp of Bell-
gorley, he, James Mellifont, and his son went to a
neck of land between the harbour and oyster-haven of
Kinsale, collected all the cattle, horses, cows, &c., be-
longing to the inhabitants of Kinsale, took them to
the camp, and divided them amongst their troopers.
His lands were, by an ordinance of 4th August,
1648, given in custodiam to Captain William Parsons,
in satisfaction of £1113 due to him by the Common-
wealth authorities. Captain Parsons dying in 1652,
Robert Southwell was in 1655 put into the custodiam
of these lands,*for the benefit of the Captain's children.
In 1658, however, he induced the heir to relinquish
his original title to these lands, and to accept them
back on a lease only, and subjected to a rent of £100
per ann. which Southwell, under pretence of serving
the other children, promised to pay to them. The
Restoration followed in May, 1660, and, in the
ensuing August, Southwell obtained a grant of the
cc
386 KING James's irisii army list.
lands as in lieu of £700 worth of sea-beer supplied by
him in 1648 for Prince Rupert's shipping, and by
charging interest at six per cent extended the debt to
£1300. Meantime, in 1648, Philip Barry Oge, who
had been so expelled from his inheritance, complying
with the articles of peace of that year, retired to
Flanders, where he served King Charles till his death
in 1656. He had married Juliana, daughter of Sir
Dominick Sarsfield, Viscount Kilmallock, by whom
he had a son, William Barry Oge, who endeavoured
after the Restoration to subvert the grant to South-
well, in which suit he was joined by the heir of the
Mellifonts, whose adjoining estate Southwell had ob-
tained at an undervaluation ; but Southwell was
secure in the influence of the Court party, and Wil-
liam Barry Oge, forsaken and friendless, had the
mortification to see "the soil, which was his birthplace,
confirmed by patent of 1666 to his opponent The
heir of the Mellifonts, also, who had fallen irretriev-
ably into poverty, was reduced to petition the South-
wells' further interest to procure for him a tide-waiter-
ship, or other subordinate oflice in the Custom House
of Dublin."*
Besides Philip Barry Oge of Rhyncorran, there
were attainted in 1642 Redmond and Gerald Barry
of Lisgrifiin, and eleven others of the name in the
County of Cork. The above Grerald was one of the
Confederate Catholics at the Assembly of 1647 in
Kilkenny. The Declaration of Royal gratitude,
♦ Thorpe's Cat. Southwell MSS., p. 193.
Carroll's dragoons. 387
embodied in 'the Act of Settlement/ includes the
names of Captain Philip Barry of Dunbogy, Captain
William Barry of Rhincorran, and Lieutenant Robert
Barry of Robertstown, all in the County of Cork.
Besides this John Barry a Captain, Nicholas and
James Barry Lieutenants, and Richard Barry a
Quarter-Master in this present Regiment, Philip
Barry Oge was a Captain in Lord Mountcashel's
Infantry ; (he appears to have been the grandson of
Philip Barry Oge of Rhyncorran, who married the
Honourable Margaret de Courcy, aunt by the father's
side of Almeric Lord Kinsale, hereafter alluded to) ;*
and nineteen others of the name were commissioned
on this List. In Bang James's Parliament of 1689,
James Barry was one of the Representatives for the
Borough of Rathcormack, while the Attainders there
attempted to be passed included Barry, Earl of
Barrymore ; Richard Barry, the second Baron of
Santry ; Laurence Barry, Lord Buttevant ; and
Richard Barry, Gentleman. The Inquisitions of
1691 record the effective attainders of the above
Captain, described as John Barry of Shanagrane,
Walshestownmore, and Derrylone, with sixteen others
of the name in the County of Cork ; on whose estates
sundry claims were made at Chichester House, and
some allowed.
♦ Nichols's Top*, and Gen*, p. 647.
CC 2
388 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
CAPTAIN JASPER GRANT.
This family wiis from a very remote period settled in
the County of Kilkenny, where so early as in 1346
WOliam le Graunt is reported a landed proprietor.
Captain Jasper was, however, of the County of Cork,
and had estates therein at Kilmurry, as likewise at
Grantstown in the County of Waterford. Gillian
Grant, his widow, claimed in 1700 and was allowed
an estate for her life thereoff ; and for her son, another
Jasper Grant a minor, she claimed an estate tail in
said lands. Annabella Grant sought jointure off
certain Cork Estates under Settlement of 1681, but
her petition was dismist. Walter Grant, described
as of Curlody, in the County of Kilkenny, was
attainted at the same time.
In 1 747, Captain Matthew Grant, of Clare's Eegi-
ment of Brigade, was killed at Lauffield village, near
Maestricht.*
CAPTAIN HENRY COPINGER.
This is one of the few families of Danish extraction
yet existing in Ireland. Its first settlement was in
the County of Cork, where it still continues. In
1535, William Copinger, Mayor of Cork, had a
grant of the King's Castle there to him and his future
successors in the Mayoralty. In the first Parliament
♦ Gent. Mag. ad ann, p. 377.
lif ^^
►^.
I
CARROLL'S DRAGOONS. 389
of Queen Elizabeth, Stephen Copinger was one of the
Representatives for that City. When, early in the
reign of James the First, the East India Company of
England meditated a settlement in Munster, for
carrying on iron works and building large ships, they
purchased for this speculation woods and lands in the
Barony of Kinalea and Kerry currihy, erected a dock,
and actually launched two ships. " Yet were they,"
says Smith,* "so disturbed in their undertaking by
Walter Copinger and others of the Irishry, that they
were forced to quit the country, and abandon the pro-
ject. Nevertheless, soon afterwards, Walter Copinger
had a grant of a castle, with various lands, chiefrents,
and customs, the lands being erected into two manors,
that of Cloghanmore with liberty to impark 1,000
acres, and Eilfinane with like liberty for 600 acres.
Of this name were attainted, in 1642, Stephen
Copinger of Grange, Thomas Fitz- Walter Copinger of
Manances, and Richard and Walter of Ringroan, all
in the County of Cork. A James Copinger of Clogh-
ane in said County was likewise outlawed ; and it
was in reference to him and his sequestered estates
that the Earl of Anglesey, when in power, wrote to
the Sheriff of Cork in a tone of tenderness and com-
miseration creditable to his memory : — " Mr. Sheriff,
whereas Mr. James Copinger, upon his claim before
his Majesty's Commissioners for putting in execution
the Act of Settlement, hath been declared innocent
and to be restored to his lands, and hath obtained a
• Hint, of Cork, vol. 1, p. 219.
390 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
decree pursuant thereunto ; and whereas part of the
land is in my possession, I desire, when the decree
comes to your hands to be executed, that you will^
notwithstanding any interest I have in the said lands,
see the same put in execution for so much as I am
concerned in/'* An Ensign John Copinger was
on the List of officers recommended for early prefer-
ment in Lord Tyrconnel's orders of 1686 to Colonel
Russel ;t he does not, however, appear on this.
In April, 1691, a Captain Copinger was killed in a
skirmish with a party of Captain Clayton's Iiifantry.J
The Attainders of this year include the names of
Thomas Copinger of Killentine, with ten others of
that name in the County of Cork, and Henry, Mat-
thew, and William Copinger of the City^ merchants.
This latter individual was the Catholic Sheriff of
Cork in King James's time, and fled .with his Royal
Master to France, where on his death Louis the Four-
teenth assigned a foreigner's pension for his widow.
The above Captain Henry of this Regiment was his
brother, as was also Edward, the Captain who was
killed as above in April, 1691. From a family pedi-
gree furnished to the compiler of these notices, it ap-
pears that the above Thomas Copinger of Edllentine
was an elder brother of the tliree last mentioned, that
he married Helen Galway of Lota, and was the lineal
ancestor of the present William Copinger of Bally vo-
♦ Thorpe's Cat. Southw. MSS., p. 186.
t Smith's Cork, vol. 1, p. 459.
I Story's Impartial History, pt. 2, p. 70.
Carroll's dragoons. 391
lane and Banyscourt, in the County of Cork. At the
Court of Claims, Stephen Copinger, as son and heir of
said Thomas, claimed a remainder in tail in his
estates under marriage settlements of 1676 ; as did
John and Edward Copinger similar remainders under
the same deed. These claims were allowed to the ex-
tent of the lands comprised in that settlement, which
were very considerable. Such property as said
Thomas Copinger had in the City of Cork was sold
by the Commissioners to Charles Farringdon, as were
such of his unsettled estates as lay in the County and
within the Liberties of the City, to Helen Gklway and
Abraham Dixon, of Cork ; while those of the above
Walter, and James his son, were similarly conveyed
to Edmund Boch of Trabolgan.
From the above Captain Henry Coppinger are de-
scended, in the male line. General Joseph Coppinger,
now in the Spanish service ; and Francis Coppinger
of Monkstown Castle, County of Dublin ; as are, in
the female line, Christopher Coppinger, Chairman of
the County of Kildare ; and the O'Briens of Kilcor,
near Castle Lyons, County of Cork.
LIEUTENANT JOHN LACY.
This great name occurs in the first Roll of the
!l^atents of Ireland, the King thereby granting to
Hugh de Lacy the whole Province of Meath, thereto-
fore the mensal estate of the native Monarchs of Ire-
392 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
land ; to hold the same with as fiill and ample powers
as Hugh O'Melaghlin, then yet styled King of Meath
had held the same, and this conveyance is especially
witnessed amongst others by Earl Strongbow, whose
recognition, as husband of the heiress of King Der-
mott Mac Murrough, Henry was perhaps then not
unwilling in policy to obtain.* De Lacy in this
grant had the powers of a Lord Palatine conferred
upon him, and early after he sought to arrange a
peaceful treaty with Roderic O'Conor, the King of Ire-
land, as acknowledged by the natives. They met on
the banks of the Shannon, but De Lacy's terms were
then considered too severe to be accepted by Roderic.
The former, however, received his daughter in mar-
riage as his second wife, whereby he incurred the
Royal jealousy, and was recalled from the Viceroyalty
which he then filled. His powers as a Palatine ex-
tended to the erection of boroughs, one of which, on
the northern border of the Pale, was Drogheda ; and
he yet more practically endeavoured to secure the
English interest, and to extend the circuit of that
Pale, by fortifying castles in advance into the island.
The Four Masters jealously say of his government,
that "he confiscated and transferred many churches to
the English Lords in Meath, Brefney, and Oriel, and
to him the rents of Connaught were paid." He was
assassinated in 1186, while inspecting a castle which
had just been erected by his order at Durrow, in the
Kings County. His sons were Hugh and Walter ;
♦ D'Alton's Drogheda, v. 2, p. 40.
Carroll's dragoons. 393
the former, after sharp contests with De Courcy,
became Lord of Ulster ; and dying in 1241, his
daughter and heiress married William de Burgo, who
died in 1244. Their daughter and heiress married
Lionel, Duke of Clarence, third son of King Edward
the Third, and she was grandmother of Edward the
Fourth, in whose right the title and estates vested in
the Crown. To the failure of the De Lacys' issue
male. Baron Finglas in his * Breviate' mainly attri-
butes the origin of absenteeism in this country ; and
it is a remarkable concurrence in the destinies of Ire-
land, that the male line of Earl Strongbow also failed,
and similar marriages of his female issue into English
families, scattered his immense territory amongst
powerful but ever absent proprietors.
In 1314, Walter and another Hugh de Lacy were
of the Irish Magnates, who attended King Edward on
his expedition against Scotland. They appear to
have descended from Hugh de Lacy's second marriage
with the daughter of Roderic O'Conor. In Mount-
joy's engagement against the Earl of Tyrone, fell
Pierce Lacy of BrufF, County of Limerick, " a zeal-
ous Catholic and one of the most alert of the Munster
Chieftains.''* In 1604, and 1608, King James
the First granted to his favourite Sir James Fullerton
the castle and. lands of BruflF (inter alia) as "late
in the tenure of Piers Lacie attainted, with all other
his estate belonging to him at his death in rebellion."
The name does not appear on the Attainders of 1642,
♦ Stuart's Armagh, p. 296.
394 KING James's irish army list.
although there were at that time three branches of the
family settled in the County of Limerick alone, at
Bruree, Bruff, and Ballingarry.*
John Lacy of the House of Bruflf was the only in-
dividual of the name who attended the Supreme
Council of Kilkenny in 1647 ; he was placed in the
rank of Colonel on the Restoration ; and, on the
raising of the army for King James, was appointed
Lieutenant-Colonel in Colonel Charles Cavanagh's
Infantry, as noted hereafter ; but, as his name did not
appear on the present Army List, the notices of *de
Lacy' could not be referred to him. He resided at
Kilmallock, and was Deputy Grovemor of Limerick
under Lord Blessington in 1 685-6 ; at which time the
Viceroy, the Earl of Clarendon, wrote of him to the
Earl of Sunderland : — "Here is a Colonel Lacy, an old
Cavalier, who hopes the King will, when he has an
opportunity, put him into employment. I am sure
he desires it. He was an officer in the time of King
Charles the First, and I believe His Majesty remem-
bers him with himself in France and Flanders, where
he served very bravely. This poor gentleman was
settled here in a very comfortable way, when in Gates'
* reign' he was sent into England, and kept prisoner
in the Gatehouse about two years, besides other
severities both to his person and his estate. I take
the liberty to recommend his enclosed petition to
your Lordship.^f Clarendon at the same time wrote
• Ferrar's Limerick, p. 346.
t Singer's Correspondence of Clarendon, v. 1, p. 207.
cakroll's dragoons. 395
a special letter in Lacy's favour to the King, grace-
fully adding, " I beg your Majesty's pardon for say-
ing thus much in a particular man's case, which I
will never do, but when the person's eminent loyalty
and services will justify me."* Subsequently, al-
luding to growing apprehensions that a restoration of
their lands would be sought by many from the new
King, and that some who had been made officers
encouraged the apprehension, the Viceroy says, " all
this would be very easily remedied, and the King
have all done he has mind to, if men would be dis-
creet in their states as several are ; amongst whom
ought to be remembered Sir John Fitzgerald, both
the Dempsys, Colonel Sheldon, Lacy, and many more
who have moulded their troops and companies to
their mind, ydthout the least dissatisfaction to any
one. They are beloved in their quarters, they cherish
and comfort the people, and punish those who talk
impertinently. But there are likewise several of
whom I cannot give so good characters ; and those
who ought to reprove them for indiscretion will only
say, 'Alas! poor man, he has lost his estate ; you
must give him leave to talk.' I have taken the
liberty to entertain your Lordship with these stories,
that you may see something of the temper of persons
as well as things ; and to show you that it is not so
much the King's employing Roman Catholics in his
army which disquiets men, as that there are duch from
whom, by their own words and actions, they fear to
* Singer s Correspondence of Lord Clarendon, v. 1, p. 208.
396 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
be oppressed instead of being protected. Believe it,
my Lord, when it is known what the King would
have, and which, with submission (in some cases)
ought to be known but to a few, it may be easily
done to general satisfaction ; for I must needs say,
never were people in the world more disposed to
obedience, and to betake themselves to their industry,
than the generality of people here, if they are let alone."*
In 1689, this Colonel John Lacy was one of the Repre-
sentatives of Kilmallock in the Parliament of Dublin.
At the second siege of Limerick, when the William-
ites had succeeded in throwing a bridge over the
Shannon at Thomond Gate, (as before mentioned, p.
71) Colonel Lacy, with 800 picked men, was ordered
out to contest their advance, which he did with great
valour and good success for a time, till, overpowered
by a continual supply of fresh opponents, .he was
forced to give way and retire to the gate ; which the
mayor of the City, however, apprehending the English
might enter with them, imprudently closed, whereby
the greater number of Lacy's gallant band was cut
down.
The subsequent Attainders of 1691 include the
names of this Colonel, stiled "of Kilmallock;" Simon
Lacy of Ferns, County of Wexford ; and Thomas and
Walter Lacy of Balrath, County of Westmeath. This
Thomas Lacy forfeited also largely in the Barony and
County of Roscommon, and very many claims were
preferred at Chichester House as affecting his confis-
* Singers Correspondence of Lord Clarendon, v. 1, p. 466.
CARROLL'S DRAGOONS. 397
cations, the greater portion of which was sold in 1703
by the Commissioners to Samuel Massy of Dublin,
M.D.
Various gallant officers of this name appear on the
records of continental military achievement, the
career of one of whom powerfully connects with pass-
ing events, ^the Count Peter de Lasci; whom
an autobiography preserved by his descendant Mrs.
de Lacy Nash states to have been bom in the County
of Limerick in 1678 ; that his father was Peter, son
of John Lacy of Ballingarry ; that on the capitula-
tion of Limerick he was brought oflf by his uncle John
(who appears to have been the above Colonel), who
had the rank of Quarter-master General and Brigadier
in France, and was Colonel of the Prince of Wales's
Infantry Eegiment, on which this youth was at once
enrolled ; that he marched with it to Piedmont in
1692, joined Catinat in May, 1693, and in the
October of that year was at the battle of the ' Val de
Marseilles,' in which his uncle, said John, received a
mortal wound. The Regiment having been disband-
ed on the peace of Ryswick, this young officer volun-
teered in the Polish service under Marshal Due de
Croy, in the rank of Lieutenant. The Due presented
him to Peter the Great, who was then in alliance with
Poland, and the Czar took him into his own service,
in which he obtained a majority in 1705, and a
Lieutenant-Colonelcy in the following year. In
1708, he was promoted to the command of the Sibe-
rian Regiment of Infantry, and joined the Grand
398 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARAIY LIST.
Army. On the first of January, 1709, he commanded
the right wing and acted as a Brigadier at the great
Battle of Pultowa, where he was wounded. In
1710, he distinguished himself in the attack on Riga,
and in the following year was made Major-General.
His various movements are in the manuscript set
down by the year, until in 1737 he was appointed to
command an expedition into the Crimea. Crossing
an arm of the sea (he writes) near Arabat^ we
marched and took Ferekop^ and blew up the fortifi-
cations. He died in Livonia in 1751, Governor of
that Province. This was the general who, according to
Ferrar,* ^^^ taught the Russians to beat the army of the
King of Sweden^ and to become from the worst some
of tlie best soldiers of Europe. Before the battle of
Pultowa he advised the Czar to send orders that every
soldier should reserve his fire until he came within a
few yards of the enemy ; in consequence of which
Charles the Twelfth was there totally defeated, losing
in that single action the advantages of nine campaigns
of glory, and narrowly escaping being taken prisoner.''
The son of this Count Peter was Joseph-Francis-
Maurice, Count de Lasci, bom in 1725 at St. Peters-
burgh, and educated at Vienna. He made his first
campaign in the Austrian army in Italy during the
year 1744, where he had three horses shot under him
at the battle of Velletri. At the siege of Maestricht
in 1748, he received the rank of Colonel. He dis-
tinguished himself against Prussia in the seven years'
* Hist, of Limerick, p. 347.
CARROLL'S DRAGOONS. 399
war, in 1762 received the baton of Marshal from
the Emperor's own hand, and in the same year served
with considerable eclat in the war between Austria
and Prussia. In 1801, he died at Vienna, where the
Emperor Joseph the Second, to whom he left all his
property, caused a bust to be erected to his memory
in the hall of the Chancery of the Council of War.
Of this latter Marshal, Wraxall writes,* in 1778,
"Marshal Lacy is now approaching his sixtieth year ;
when young, he must have been very handsome.
Though he has been six times wounded by musket
balls, he enjoys perfect health, and preserves a youth-
ful appearance. He was bom in Eussia, son of the
famous Marshal Lacy, who in conjunction with
Munich commanded the Muscovite armies against the
Turks, and obtained so many victories over them in
the last years of the Empress Anne. It was in that
great school he learned the art of war. I have heard
him say that his father sent him to study at Legnitz
in Silesia, and afterwards at Vienna. In 1740,
about the time of Maria Theresa's accession, he en-
tered the Austrian service as an Ensign in the Kegi-
ment of Count (afterwards Marshal) Brown, who was
killed at the battle of Prague. Having distinguished
himself by a thousand acts of personal courage, ac-
tivity, and ability, he rose so rapidly that at the
commencement of the war of 1756 he was already a
Colonel, and soon became a Major-General.
Another General Maurice de Lacy, born in
* Memoirs of the Court of Berlin, vol. 1, p. 173.
400 KING James's irish army list.
Limerick in 1740, was invited to Kussia by his rela-
tive, the aforesaid Marshal Peter, and entered that
service when but ten years old. He served under
Suwarrow in the Italian campaign of 1799, in cam-
paigns against the Turks, and also in the Crimea.
He died in 1820, unmarried. Of Lacys in Spain,
Francis Anthony Lacy, Count de Lacy, was a famous
General and Diplomatist ; born in 1731, commenced
his military career as an Ensign in the Irish Brigade
of Ultonia Infantry, was raised to be a Colonel in
1762, and a Commander of Artillery in 1780, when
he was employed at the celebrated siege of Gibraltar.
After the peace of Utrecht in 1783, he was consti-
tuted Minister Plenipotentiary in Sweden and Eussia,
and died at Barcelona in 1792. He had married a
daughter of the Marquis d'Abbeville, by whom he
left a son, Captain-General of Artillery to his Most
Catholic Majesty ; and a daughter, who married
" the Marquis of Canada, originally Irish, of the an-
cient family of Terry."
CORNET PATRICK STAUNTON.
In England the name of de Staunton dates from the
Conquest, while in Ireland it is of record from the
earliest days after the English Invasion. About the
year 1200, Milo and Henry de Staunton disputed the
patronage of the parish church of Monmohenock in
Wicklow with the Bishop of Glendaloch ; Milo was
CABROLL'S DRAGOONS. 401
then seised of its manor.* In 1220, Adam de Staun-
ton granted lands in Kilbrenin, with the miU, the
church, and all tithes there, to Christ Church, Dublin,
for the founding of a cell with resident canons. The
above Milo at the same time endowed the abbey of
St. Thomas in that City with the churches of Dun-
brin and Demloff. In 1244, Adam was summoned,
as one of the ' Fideles ' of Ireland, to service in the
Scottish war ; and in 1279, Richard de Burgo, Eari
of Ulster, petitioned for the wardship of Adam de
Staunton, who held lands in Connaught under him.
In 1295, the latter Adam was summoned for the war
in Gascony, as was William de Staunton to that of
Scotland in 1302. In 1308, Gerald, son and heir of
Maurice de Staunton, made a marriage appointment
of dower, (according to the custom of the time) at the
gate of St. Patrick's Cathedral ; assigning four ca-
rucates of land in the County of Cork (which had
been his father's) with seven marks for his wife, Ma-
tilda de Ruggeleye ; while Henry de Ruggeleye pass-
ed his bond for fifty-seven marks as the portion of
said Matilda. About this time, Philip de Staunton,
clerk, received the full sum of £100 for his remune-
ration in the service of mustering men-at-arms, 'to put
down the Irish felons in the mountains of Leinster.'
In 1312, Fromund le Brun (Brown) acquired a con-
siderable property in Connaught in right of his wife,
Nesta, the daughter of the aforesaid Adam de Staun-
ton. In 1359, Philip de Staunton was deputed to
♦ Mason 8 St. Patrick's, p. 65.
DD
402 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
treat with the Irish ' rebels ' in Leinster, and to hold
pariey and make peace with them. In 1373, John
Staunton was one of those directed to be summoned
from Meath by its Sheriff, to attend a great Council.
In eight years after, the Earl of Mortimer, then Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland, died at Cork, whereupon the
Lord Chancellor and a Justice of the Bench issued
summonses for such persons as usually formed a Par-
liament, to meet at Cork for the purpose of appointing a
temporary Viceroy. Amongst those so summoned were
Milo Staunton and David Fitz-Thomas Roche, Knights,
returned as for the County of Cork.* In 1422,
John Staunton was appointed Constable of Trim for
life, with power to hear and decide controversies con-
cerning customs, his salary being fixed at twenty
marks per annum. The last Prior of the old abbey
of BaUintobber in the County of Mayo, at the time of
the dissolution, was Walter Mac Willie de Staunton.f
In 1574, Thomas Staunton, described as having been
'an ancient Captain in the Irish wars,' purchased the
manor and advowson of Wolverston in Warwickshire ;
while another Captain Staunton distinguLshed himself
in 1601 in the war of Ulster. In 1606, Sir John
Everardof Fethard, County of Tipperary, had a grant
of (inter alia) Clogher, one quarter and other lands in
the County of Mayo, parcel of the estate of John
(Ballagh) Stanton, 'attainted;' while in 1634, a
George Staunton came over from Buckinghamshire to
Ireland, settled in the County of Galway, and there,
* Mason's St. Patrick's, p. 127. t King's MSS., p. 197.
CARROLL'S DRAGOONS. 403
intermarrying with a lady of the name of Lynch,
became founder of the Cargins line. His son, another
George, had a grant in 1678 of various lands in the
Barony of Dunmore within that County.
On the present Army List and in this Regiment
a second Patrick Staunton appears as Quarter-Master
to his above namesake. The Attainders of 1691
describe either of them as Patrick Stanton of Great
Island, County of Cork, where were also outlawed
Michael Stanton, merchant, and James Stanton^
clothier, both of the City of Cork. In 1698, Thomas
Staunton was appointed with others to collect a state
subsidy of £940 off Clare, and another of £1260 ciff
Gal way County ; he became in 1722 Recorder of
Galway and its Representative in Parliament. In
1801, died Sir George Leonard Staunton, (a descen-
dant of George of 1634); he had applied himself to
the profession of the Bar, and wiis appointed His
Majesty's Attorney General for Grenada ; after which
he accompanied Lord Macartney to Madras, and sub-
sequently on his celebrated embassy to China in
1791. He was buried in Westminster Abbey.
CORNET WILLIAM COLLINS.
Nothing has been discovered of note concerning him;
and a Darby Collins, described as of Buttevant, is the
only individual of the surname appearing on the At-
tainders of 1691.
dd2
404 KIXG JAMES'S IKISH ARMY LIST.
CORNET KOBEKT GOOLD.
The Goold fiimily was at an early period established
in the County of Cork. In 1356, Nicholas ' Gold '
was one of these influential pei'sons commissioned to
applot a state subsidy off that County, as was David
' Gold ' in a few years after. With the Municipal
History of the City they were, during the years previ-
ous to the first Civil War, intimately connected. Golds
having been Mayors of Cork, from 1442 to 1640, no
less than thirty times ; but aftenvards they ceased to
fill any corporate oflSce there. Queen Elizabeth's
instructions to her Lord President of Munster, Sir
George Carew, in 1 600, directed that William Saxey,
Chief Justice, and James Golde, second Justice of the
said Province, being of special trust appointed to be
of his Council, shall give their continual attendance
thereat, and shall not depart at any time without the
special licence of the said Lord President. The salary
of the Chief was fixed at £100, that of James Golde
at one hundred marks, subject to deductions in case
of their absence from the duties so imposed upon
them. A Manuscript Book of Obits in Trinity
College, Dublin, (F. iv. 18), supplies some links of the
family of William Goold, Mayor of Cork in 1618, and
who died in 1634.
The Attainders of 1642 include the names of Gar-
rett ' Goold ' of Castletown, and of James and John
Fitz-Richard Goold of Tower-Bridge, merchants.
James Goold was the only member of the family who
Carroll's dragoons. 405
attended the Supreme Council in 1647. Besides
the above Cornet Kobert Goold, there appear on this
List, Thomas ' Gold ' an Ensign in Colonel Nicholas
Browne's Infantry Regiment ; and James Gold, an
Ensign in Colonel John Barrett's. The Attainders of
1691 include the names of James and Ignatius Goold,
described as of Cork, Esquires ; John Goold of Kin-
sale, Esq.; Richard of Cork, merchant ; Patrick of
said City; James 'Goold' of Gal way, and Ellen
Bagot, otherwise Goold, wife of John Bagot of Cork.
Amongst those who were taken at sea in 1746,
volunteering to aid the cause of Prince Charles-
Edward, was ' Captain Gould, Ultonia Regiment,
Spanish service.'* It may be added that in the
Church of St. Giles at Bruges is a burial place of Wil-
liam Goold, 'of ancient and venerable lineage in Cork,'
^ hujus eccksicB ceditui^' as inscribed upon a white
marble slab inserted in the flag of the Chapel of the
Blessed Virgin.f In 1801, a branch of this family
was raised to the Baronetcy in Sir Francis Goold of
Oldcourt, County of Cork ; while in the Imperial Par-
liament Wjmdham Goold was, until his recent decease,
one of the Representatives for the County of Limerick.
CORNET TEIGUE O'LYNE.
The O'Lynes constituted an ancient Sept in the
♦ Gent. Mag. vol. 16, p. 208.
t Nichols's Top*, and Gen*, for 1863, p. 535.
406 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
County of Kerry, but the name does not otherwise ap-
pear on this List. John Lyne was one of those
attainted in 1691, and his estate in Kerry was sold
by the Commissioners of the Forfeitures to Thomas
Connor of Dublin.
CORNET HENRY WILSE,
QUARTER-MASTER DAVID MOSKELL,
QUARTER-MASTER EDWARD SHEWELL.
Nothing is known of these officers or their families.
QUARTER-MASTER JOHN FENNELL.
The Attainders of 1642 include a Patrick Fennell,
described as of Kilrush, County of Clare. At the
Supreme Council of Kilkenny, five years after, Gerard
Fennell ' of Ballygriffin,' County of Tipperary, was one
of the Commons ; his estates were accordingly confis-
cated in CromwelFs time, but restored by the Act of
Explanation in 1665. By the Usurper's ordinance of
1652 this Gerard, described as a Doctor of Physic,
was excepted from pardon for life and estate. He
died in 1663, and was buried at St. Michan's, Dublin.
This estate of Ballygriffin was, in 1668, confirmed
under the Act of Settlement to Thomas Gower, with
a saving, however, of such right as Ellen, Gerald's
widow, might prove herself entitled to.
CARROLL'S DRAGOONS. 407
QUAKTER-MASTER DERMOT DONWORTH.
In the Inquisition for his Attainder in 1691, he is
described as of TempleconoUy, County of Cork ; where
another of the family, Robert Donworth, was also
outlawed.
QUARTER-MASTER WILLIAM BAKER.
This Officer seems identical with William Baker of
Ballytobin in the County of Kilkenny, (the son of a
Major William Baker, who lost all his estates in
Worcestershire by his adherence to King Charles the
First). He obtained Ballytobin from Charles the
Second, and is at this day represented by his lineal
descendant, Abraham Whyte Baker. A Francis
Baker was Captain in Lord Bophin's Regiment of
Infantry ; yet neither name appears on the At-
tainders of 1691, but only that of Peter Baker,
described as of Dungorney, County of Cork.
QUARTER-MASTER THOMAS DYNNEEN.
The O'Dinnahans or O'Dinans were located in the
County of Limerick, Chiefs of the tract now known as
the Barony of Owneybeg.
408 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST,
KEGIMENTS OF DRAGOONS.
[brigadier THOMAS MAXWELL.]
[lieutenant-colonel DANIEL MAGENNIS.]
[major CALLAGHAN.]
The Army List, more concisely given in Somers'
State Tracts, (vol. xi., p. 399) makes note of this
seventh Regiment of Dragoons, commanded by Colo-
nel Thomas Maxwell, and his name appears on the
List of Colonels that introduces this Muster Roll ;
while in Singer's Correspondence of Lord Clarendon
(vol. ii, p. 512,) his force is set down as twelve com-
panies, comprising a total of six hundred men. He^
according to Colonel O'Kelly, was a Scotchman by
birth, a pretended Roman Catholic, and of mean ex-
traction. O'Callaghan, with less prejudice and on
more satisfactory authority, reports him to have been
" of a very good family in his native country, prob-
ably a branch of the Maxwells of Nithsdale." Previ-
ous to King James retiring into France in 1688,
Maxwell was appointed in England Colonel of a Regi-
ment of Dragoons, in place of James Berkeley,
Viscount Fitz-Harding, who succeeded to the command
on Maxwell's foUowing that King. In Ireland the
latter was afterwards made Colonel of a Regiment of
Dragoons, of which Daniel Magennis was Lieutenant-
Colonel, and Callaghan, Major.* Mr. Hardi-
♦ King's State of the Protestants, p. 68.
maxwell's dragoons. 409
man adds of this Colonel,* that he was married in
England to Jane, Duchess of Norfolk, widow of the
sixth Duke, a Lady remarkable for her beauty and
accomplishments. When Schomberg landed at
Bangor in 1689, Maxwell, then stationed in that
place, not being able with his small force to give
opposition, left there Mac Carty More's Regiment
with some Companies of Cormuck CNeiU's, and
retired to Newry. He was present at the battle of
the Boyne. Colonel O'KeUy says he was one of those
appointed by Tyrconnell to guide and advise the
young Duke of Berwick on that Viceroy's departure
for France ; and it would appear from his narrative,
that he interested himself in predisposing King James
to give a cool reception to the delegates against Tyr-
connel, whom he accompanied to St. Germains. On
that delegation were, besides Maxwell, the Bishop of
Cork, the two Luttrells, and Colonel Purcell. " Pur-
cell," says 0'Conor,f "and Henry Luttrell, suspecting
that Maxwell carried private instructions, proposed to
throw him overboard ; but the Bishop interposed the
sanctity, and Simon Luttrell the mildness and
honesty of his character, and their united expostula-
tions rescued him from a watery grave. **
O'Kelly, who was himself a partizan of St. Ruth
against Tyrconnel, ascribes the surprisal of Athlone
by De Ginkle to the neglect or treachery of Colonel
Maxwell. The Duke of Berwick in his Memoir takes
♦ History of Galway, p. 429.
t O'Conor's Milit. Mem. p. 128.
410 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
a very different view of the circumstance, as men-
tioned in O'Callaghan's valuable notes on the Excid.
MacaricBy (p. 427). Dr. Story, the Williamite his-
torian of the campaign, in reference to the taking of
Athlone, writes: — "1691, 28th June, the garrison
detached a sergeant and ten men out of Brigadier
Maxwell's Regiment, being all bold and daring Scots.
These were all in armour, and came over their own
w^orks with a design to ruin ours, but were all of
them slain ; yet this did not discourage as many
more fi'om setting about the same piece of service, and
they effected it by throwing down our planks and
beams, maugre all our firming and skiU, though they all
lost their lives as testimonies of their valour, except
two."* The town was taken in two days after, and
Major-General Maxwell made prisoner, and sent uj)
with others to Dublin ; "but some,** says Story,
" made their escape.f " The Dragoons of Maxwell
(who had himself in the course of the campaign
become a Brigadier, and Major-General in the Irish
army), with the others hereinbefore mentioned, were
all engaged at Aughrim, with the exception ,of Lord
Clare's, which had been previously brigaded ; while
Mr. O'Callaghan in his Green Book, (p. 319)
suggests the existence of another Regiment of
Dragoons there, commanded by Colonel John
O'Reilly.
The " Diary of the Siege and Surrender of Limerick
* Story's Impartial Hist. pt. 2, p. 102.
t Idem, pp. 108-1), and 117.
maxwell's dragoons. 411
in 1691'' says, at 16th September, "About seven
of the clock the bridge was finished, and the General
immediately ordered the Royal Regiment of Dragoons
to pass In the meantime the enemy's Dragoons
came down on foot to oppose us, but as soon as our
men advanced they took to their heels, leaving their
tents and baggage with their bridles and saddles (their
horses being at grass at a place about two miles off)
behind them. We took also two pieces of brass can-
non, and Brigadier Maxwell's standard We took
several prisoners, and among them a French Lieute-
nant-Colonel of Dragoons, and some other officers."*
O'Conor writes in respect to this critical scene,
" Maxwell, who guarded the ford below the town, had
suffered his men to faU asleep, and some of them de-
serting apprised the enemy of the state of the gar-
rison ; De Ginkle, who had resolved upon a desjierate
effort, was much encouraged by this information,
and his efforts were successful.!" That this Brigadier
was not guilty of any deficiency of allegiance to the
King he acknowledged, may yet be presumed from
the fact of his having, after the Capitulation of Lime-
rick, passed over to France at the head of two Irish
Regiments of Dragoons, spoken of by Marshal Catinat
as performing ' des choses surprenentes de valeur et
de bon ordre dans le combat' He was killed at the
battle of Marsiglia in Piedmont, gained over the Duke
of Savoy and the allies by that Marshal in 1693.
♦ Harleian MSS. voL 7, p. 486.
t O'Conor's Milit. Mem. p. 140.
412 KING James's irish army list.
O'Conor, however, in his " Military Memoirs ' says*
it was a Charles Maxwell, Major in the Brigaded
Regiment styled the Queen's Dismounted Dragoons,
who .was killed at the battle of Marsiglia.
* O'Conor s Milit. Mem., pp. 198 and 222.
[ 413 ]
KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
Regiments of Infantry.
1.
The Kino's,
28.
Butler's (Edward),
2.
John Hamilton's,
29.
McMahon's (Art),
8.
Henry Frrz- James's, Lord
30.
Moore's (Charles),
Grand Prior,
3L
Bagnall's (Dudley),
4.
Mountcashel's,
82.
O'Neill's (Gordon),
6.
Clancarthy's,
83.
Browne's (Nicholas),
6
Clanricarde's,
34.
Sir Michael Creagh's,
7.
Earl of Antrim's,
36.
Sir Heward Oxburgh's,
8.
Earl of Tyrone's,
36.
Browne's (Dominick),
9.
Nugent's (Richard),
37.
MacCartie's (Owen),
10.
Gormanston's,
38.
Barrett's, (John),
11.
Dillon's (Henry),
39.
O'Bryan's (Charles),
12.
Lord Galway's,
40.
O'Donovan's (Daniel),
13.
Lord Bellew s,
41.
Lord Iveagh's,
14.
Lord Kenmare's,
42.
McEllicott's (Roger),
15.
Lord Slane's,
43.
O'Reilly's (Edmund),
16
O'Neill's (Cormuck),
44.
MacGuire's (Cuconaught)
17.
Cavenagh's (Charles),
45.
Bourke's (Walter),
18.
Sutler's (Thomas),
46.
O'Neill's (Felix),
19.
FitzGerald's (John),
47.
McMahon's (Hugh),
20.
Lord Louth's,
48.
McGillicuddy's (Denis),
21.
Lord Kilmallock's,
49.
Purcell's (James),
22.
Sir Maurice Eustace's,
50.
Lord Hunsdon's,
23.
Earl of Westmeath's,
51.
Moore s (Garreit),
24.
Major-General Boise-
52.
Bourke's (Patrick),
LEAU'S,
63.
Bourke's (Michael),
26.
Lord Bophin's,
54.
Cormick's (Michael),
26.
O'Gara's (Oliver),
55.
O'Neill's (IIenry),
27.
Grace's (John),
56.
McMahon's (Hugh).
414
KING JAMES S IRISH ARMY LIST.
KEGIMENTS OF INFANTBY.
Captains.
The King's Company, Mi-
chael Iloth, Captain.
William Doirington, Colonel.
William Maanscll Barker,
Lieutenant-Colonel.
Thomas Arthur,
', Major. }
George Talbot
Richard Fagan.
Sir Luke Dowdull.
Sir Gregory Byrne.
Patrick Dowdall.
Bartholomew Kussel.
Thomas Ilackett.
Tliomas Warren.
Walter Nangle, and Geo. >
Nangle, his Son. 3
Edward Dowdall.
George Aylmer.
John Segrave.
Sir Anthony Mulledy.
Thomas Anmdell, Grena-
diers.
John Tyrrell.
John Arthur.
THE king's.
Lieuienanti.
Richard Fitzgerald.
Robert Russell.
Thomas Wafer.
John Connell,
Walter Pluuket.
William Fitzwilliani
Barnwell,
John Edwards.
Edmund Fahy,
John Clancy.
Christopher Weldon
Edmund Brennan.
Charles McDonnell,
Peter Purcell.
Richard Bourke.
James Russell,
James Carney.
David Kihill,
Christopiier TaafTe.
Robert Dillon,
Walter D* Alton.
Edward Nangle,
John Grace.
Peter Bathe,
Bryen Lynch.
Edward Tipper,
Thomas Skelton.
James Molloy.
Francis White, )
Edmund Kelly. )
Charles Povey, f
John Margetsun. j^
Efuiffus.
Edward Arthur.
Talbot Salter.
James Touchott.
John Arthur.
Nicholas Tyrwhitt.
Piers Meade.
Robert Bamewall.
Edward Hanlon.
Cliristopher Archbold.
Andrew Doyle,
William Fitzwilliani
Barnwell.
Edward Toole.
Michael Warren.
John Dillon.
JohnPlunkct.
John Cusack.
Matthew Taaffe.
Adam Cusack.
George Russell.
Henry Driscoll.
Thomas Poyntz.
TllE king's regiment OF INFANTRY. 415
THE KING'S.
This fine Regiment is stated in the Establishment of
1687-8 as then consisting of only twelve companies
(1080 men); its charge being stated as £17,827 12s.
When strengthened as in this Muster Koll, it comprised
twenty-two companies of ninety soldiers each, or
1980 men, exclusive of officers. The celebrated
Doctor Alexius Stafford (a secular priest of Wexford
County) Dean of Christ Church, Master in Chancery,
and member for Bannow in King James's Pariiament,
was Chaplain to the Regiment ; and he, having in his
zeal passed into the ranks at the battle of Aughrim,
fell on that disastrous day.
The Clarendon Correspondence (vol. 1, p. 434,)
gives an interesting account of a review of this
Regiment in 1686. "This morning (8th June,
1686) the Royal Regiment drew up in St. Stephen's
Green, when my Lord Tyrconnel viewed them and
saw them exercise ; Lieutenant-Colonel Dorrington
was in his post; I was not in the field. His Lordship
told the officers that the King was so satisfied in the
long services of Sir Charles Fielding, that he had
removed him to prefer him to a better post, and that
he did the like for Master Billingsley, who was then
in the field. Major Barker not being yet come. His
Lordship likewise said, as I am informed, His
Majesty did not remove any of the other officers out
of any dislike, for he was well satisfied with their
services, but to make room for other men of great
416 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
merit. Then presented Captain Harman to the Com-
pany he was to command, on the head of which was
Captain Margetson, who said he bought his employ,
ment to show his readiness to venture his life and
fortune in the King's service ; that whilst he had
been in it he behaved himself with loyalty and honor,
and did now most readily submit to his Majesty^s
pleasure." This Kegiment of Infantry, together with
Fitz-James's, Lord Galway's, Sir Maurice Eustace's,
and Colonel Ramsay's, Lord Galmoy's, Lord Abercorn's,
and Colonel Dominick Sheldon's Horse, constituted
the besieging force at Derry ; and at the Boyne and
on the last fatal field of Aughrim, the valour and
steadiness of this truly Royal Regiment were preemi-
nent.
COLONEL WILLIAM DORRINGTON.
DoRRiXGTON was a native of England,* and belonged
to this Regiment of Guards from its first formation-
In the Establishment of 1687-8 he is entered on the
Pension List for £200 per annum. A tract, contem-
poraneous with the arrival of King James in Dublin,
states as in a letter from Chester, that this ill-judging
monarch had issued orders which were construed as
confiding the care and guard of his person rather to
his French auxiliaries then lately arrived, than to his
Irish adherents; that a deputation of his own oflScers
* O'Callaghan's Macarke Excidium, p. 419.
THE king's regiment OF INFANTRY. 417
having received no satisfactory reply, this Colonel
and twelve other chief officers went to the King
and delivered up their commissions, telling him withal
that many more were resolved to do the like. Where-
upon an arrangement was entered into, which, how-
ever, little satisfied either party. Constituted as the
King's Council was, and attended chiefly by com-
manders of the Irish, the occurrence, if truly alleged,
must have had an awftd effect on the eve of the cam-
paign. Dorrington was himself of that Board, toge-
ther with the Dukes of Powis and Berwick, the Earls
of Clanricarde, Abercom, Carlingford, and Melfort,
the Lords Kilmallock, Clare, Merrion, and Kenmare ;
the English Lord Chief Justice, Sir Edward Herbert,
(who followed the King's fortune, and subsequently
became his Chancellor at St. Germains), Colonel
Patrick Sarsfield, afterwards created by him Earl of
Lucan, and Sir Ignatius White of Limerick, Baro-
net.*
Colonel Dorrington was afterwards commissioned
by his King, immediately before the meeting of the
Parliament of Dublin, to serve at the siege of Derry,
and there was he wounded, but not so badly as long
to supersede his active duty. In the September of
that year, when King James would fain advance to
arrest the progress of his enemy in Louth, having
marched within a short distance of Dundalk, he di-
rected Colonel Dorrington with the Brigade of Guards
to come on as far as Mapletown-bridge, and resolved
♦ O'Callaghan 8 Brigade, v. 1, p. 168.
EE
418 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
himself to encamp near that of Affane.* Dorrington
subsequently distinguished himself at the Boyne, and
was Governor of Limerick in the latter portion of that
year (1690). When Tyconnel passed over to
France, leaving the Duke of Berwick his Deputy in
the Vice-Royalty of Ireland, Brigadier Dorrington
was one of these deputed to represent to his Grace
that the power so attempted to be conferred upon
him was illegal, but that the Great Council in Lime-
rick, consisting of the Prelates, Nobles, and OflScers,
were willing that he should have the civil and mili-
itary authority, provided he would admit a select
council of officers to direct his military operations, and
allow two able persons from each of the provinces to
advise him in relation to the civil.f On Tyrconnel's
return to France, Dorrington was made Major-Gene-
ral of the Army J.
Immediately before the last siege of Limerick, he
was taken prisoner at the battle of Aughrim,§ and
was thereupon sent up to Dublin, from thence to
Chester and at last to the Tower of London ; but was
80 soon released or exchanged by the Revolutionists
as to be able to resume in France his active adherence
to the Jacobite cause. There he retained his Colonelcy
of the Royal Irish Foot Guards ; of which, in the re-
modelling, Oliver O'Gara, who had been a full Colonel in
Ireland, was constituted Lieutenant-Colonel, and
• Clarke's James II., v. 2. p. 379.
t O'Connor s Milit. Mem. p. 126.
X Story's Impartial Hist. pt. 2, p. 55. § Idem, p. 137.
THE king's regiment OF INFANTRY. 419
John Both, Major. The Regiment, then consisting of
twelve companies, was stationed on the coast of
Normandy, as part of the army designed for the inva-
sion of England in 1693 : it subsequently served in
Flanders ; and in Germany, in 1703, under Villars,
maintained a high character ; Dorrington himself
having been then raised to the rank of Lieutenant-
Greneral. In the same year he was engaged in the
mountain campaign against the Tyrolose. In 1704,
he sustained with the French that signal discomfiture
of which O'Conor writes as " a memorable instance of
the finest army in the world annihilated by the igno-
rance of the leaders/* He again distinguished him-
self in Germany under Marshal Villars, and especially
at Ramillies in 1705. In 1709,* he was engatged at
the battle of Malplaquet, and subsequently under the
same leadership until 17 12. In 1718, he died at
Paris, when this Regimenf was transferred to the
Compte Michael de Roth, and bore his name. This
title was again changed in 1766 to 'Roscommon,' and
in 1770 to 'Walsh's,' which it continued to bear, down
to the French Revolution.
Another Dorrington (Andrew) was Captain in the
Earl of Clancarthy's Regiment of Infantry, but
William is the only one on the Roll of Attainders,
whereon he is described as ' of Dublin.'
♦ O'Conor's Milit. Mem. p. 290.
EE 2
420 KING James's irisii army list.
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL WILLIAM MAUN-
SELL BARKER.
This name does not seem to have been known in Ire-
land until the days of the Tudor Dynasty, neither
does it appear on the Attainders of 1642 or 1691.
By the Act of Explanation (1665) William Barker,
Esq., was restoi'ed to his estates in the County of
Limerick, and seems to have been the father of the
above Lieutenant-Colonel, who commanded the Infan-
try at the momentous battle of Aughrim. There, ac-
cording to Clarke's Memoir of James the Second, (vol.
2, p. 359), he was icounded^ according to Dean
Story,* killed. A Sir William Barker being seized in
fee of lands in the County of Limerick, and also of a
manor in Essex, settled same on his marriage in
1676, and the eldest son of that marriage was another
Sir William.t
MAJOR THOMAS ARTHUR.
This name appears of Irish record from the time of
Edward the Second, and Ortelius's map locates the
family in the Barony of Clanwilliam, County of
Limerick. In the year 1210, Robert Arthur was
a benefactor to the great Abbey of St. Thomas in
Dublin. In 1486, Dr. Thomas Arthur, by birth of
Limerick City, died there Bishop of the See. In the
* Impartial Hist. pt. 2, p. 130. f Appeal Cases.
THE king's regiment OF INFANTRY. 421
first Parliament of Elizabeth, Edward Arthur was one
of the members elected to represent the City. After
the Kestoration, a patent of lands in the County of
Limerick to Captain John Winckworth, a Cromwel-
lian, contained a saving of the right of Dr. Thomas
Arthur to certain lands therein named, as a nominee
after reprisals. He had a similar saving in a patent
of premises in the City of Limerick, to Wentworth,
Earl of Koscommon ; while, under the Acts of Settle-
ment and Explanation, he was restored to his principal
seat and 2,000 acres of land ; as was, by the same
legislative arrangement of property, John Arthur to
the estates of his father. Alderman Arthur, with some
exceptions ; and a Patrick Arthur was likewise
thereby similarly restored. In King James's Charter
to Limerick, Nicholas Arthur was named one of the
Aldermen, while James and Thomas Arthur were of
its Burgesses. This Thomas it may be concluded was
the above Major. At the Parliament of Dublin in
1689, he sat as one of the Representatives for the Bo-
rough of Newcastle, in the County of Dublin.*
An early notice of this Thomas appears in the
"Correspondence of the Earl of Clarendon," (6th
May, 1686), when, writing to the Earl of Sunderland
he recommends " that Captain Thomas Arthur, a
Roman Catholic, who lately bought the employment,
be advanced to the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the
Guards."! Early in the September of that year he
♦ King's MSS. in Dublin Soc.
t Singer's Correspond, vol. 2, p. 372.
422 KING James's irish army ust.
was sent to Connaught by Tyrconnel to raise recruits,
but not having the Earl of Clarendon's order, he was
recalled, and this the rather " as the Captain could
command no serviceable interest in Connaught."*
Lord Clarendon, having been afterwards acciised of
thus recalling Arthur, defended himself as that the
raising of men is a matter of great consequence, and
ought to be done by no authority but that of the Chief
Govemor.f Besides Major Thomas, there were of the
family in this Regiment Jolin Arthur a Captain,
Edward and John Arthur Ensigns ; and Patrick
Arthur was a Captain in Major-General Boiseleau's
Infantry. One 'of these Captains was wounded at
Deny, while the above Major fell at the Boyne ;X ^^^
Dean Story records the death of a Colonel Arthur at
the battle of Aughrim,§ who it would seem from
Lodge,|| was married to a niece of Richard, Earl of
Tyrconnel. The outlawries of 1691 include the
above Thomas^ described as of Colganstown, County
of Dublin, with three others in said County, and one
in each of those of Limerick, Clare, and Kilkenny.
Various claims were made on their estates at Chi-
chester House.
* Singer 8 Correspondence of Lord Clarendon, vol. 2, pp. 578-9.
t Idem. X Clarke's James II. v. 2. p. 399
§ Impartial History, pt. 2, p. 138. H Peerage, v. 4, p. IGO.
THE king's regiment OF INFANTRY. 423
CAPTAIN RICHARD FAGAN.
This family is by some considered of English descent,
while others prefix to it the Milesian ' 0/ In the
thirteenth century it was established in Meuth, and
in its branches became early connected with the De
Lacys, Plunketts, and Barnewalls. In 1358, John
Fagan was High Sheriff of the Liberties of Meath ;
and in 1373, was appointed Governor of the important
Castle of the Pale at Trim.
Christopher Fagan, -the representative of tlie
Meath line, and inheritor of their estates, was induced
to lend his influence in mainUiining Perkin Warbeck s
claim to the Crown. He (as it is said in an old
family pedigree, verified by wills and funeral
entries in the OflSce of Arms, and now preserved by
Mr. William Fagan of Cork), was slain with four of
his sons at the siege of Carlow, when a great portion
of their Meath estates was, as confiscated, granted to
the Aylmers, Barnewalls, and other gentry of the
Pale. John, the youngest son of Christopher, was
also at Carlow, being then but 18 years of age ; he,
however, escaped the slaughter, and fled to Cork, a
city that held out strenuously for Perkin. He there
married Phillis, daughter of William Skiddy of Skiddy's
Castle in that city, by whom he had two sons, and a
daughter Phillis, who married Thomas Gould. Rich-
ard, the eldest son of Christopher, left a son Thomas
Fagan, who acquired that estate of Feltrim in the
County of Dublin from which the head of the family
424 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
has since derived a territorial designation. His
eldest son, another Christopher, was High SheriflF of
the City of Dublin in 1565 and 1573 ; and it was
during his possession of Feltrim that the unfortunate
Earl of Desmond, being a prisoner of state in the
Castle of Dublin, and his health failing so as to need
the air of the country, this Christopher Fagan was
select/cd to take charge of his person at his residence.
But when it was intimated to Fagan that it would be
his duty to watch the captive, he magnanimously
replied, that the Earl woult^ be welcome to diet and
lodging at his house, yet would he never consent to
be his keeper. Desmond, it may be added, in such li-
beral guardianship was allowed to walk abroad on his
parol ; but, abusing the privilege, he escaped into
Munster, where entering soon after into open rebellion
he was treacherously murdered.* The descendant and
namesake of tliis Christopher was declared a forfeit-
ing proprietor during the civil wars of 1641. On
proof, however, of his innocence, he was in 1670
decreed the possession of Feltrim, qualified into an
estate in tail-male. His death in 1682 is recorded in
a funeral entry in the OflSce of Arms, wherein he is
described as 'Christopher, son of Kichard, son of John,
son of Richard ;' that he died 1 2th February, 1682-3,
and was buried in St. Audoens' Church, Dublin ;
having married Anne, daughter of Sir Nicholas White
of Leixlip, by whom he had several children, of whom
(says the record) Richard and Peter are now living,
♦ D' Alton's History of the Co. Dublin, pp. 211-12.
THE king's regiment OF INFANTRY. 425
and one daughter, Elizabeth, married to Lord Stra-
bane [and who became mother by him of Claud, fourth
Eari of Abercorn, Colonel of a Regiment of Horse in
this Army, as before noticed]. The Richard here
mentioned was the above Captain, and he married
Ellen, daughter of Thomas Aylmer of Lyons, by
whom he had one daughter, Anna-Maria. Richard's
uncle, John Fagan, became the founder of that
Munster line in which the representation is now
preserved ; and his son Christopher was, as hereafter
noticed, a Captain in Lord Kenmare's Infantry ;
while in Sir Michael Creagh's, Patrick ' Ffagan ' was
also a Captain. The Attainders of 1691 exhibit the
names of Thomas Fagan of Kinsale, Bryan ' OTegan'
of Drumgagh, County of Down, clerk ; Manus
' OTegan ' of Clonallon, County of Down ; with
Richard Fagan, described as of Drakestown, County
of Meath, and Feltrim, County of Dublin. The value
of the latter's estate alone was so considerable, that
an inquiry into its circumstances was directed in
1690-1, with the object of presenting it as a royal
boon to Sir Robert Southwell.* The sale of all his
estates ultimately brought in not less than £100,000,
out of which only his wife's jointure and his daugh-
ters' portions (for he died without male issue) were
allowed to be paid ; viz. £1,000 for his eldest daugh-
ter Anne, and £400 for each of his other daughters,
Elizabeth and Helen. They were all minors at the
♦ Thorpe's Catal. SouthweU MSS. p. 213.
426 KING JAM£S'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
time of the claims made. Helen afterwards married
John Taylor of Swords, antej p. 379.
A James Fagan passed after the Revolution into
the Spanish service, where he was promoted to the
rank of Lieutenant-Colonel of Hamel's Regiment. He
married the heiress of the House of Turges in Lor-
raine, and was living in 1722.* See further of this
family at Christopher Fagan, a Captain in Lord Ken-
mare's Infantry.
CAPTAINS SIR LUKE, PATRICK, AND
EDWARD DOWDALL.
This name is of record in Ireland from the time of
King Edward the Third. In 1446, Robert Dowdall
of Newtown-Termonfeckin, County of Louth, was ap-
pointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in Ire-
land. His son Thomas was Master of the Rolls in
1488, and James Dowdall was appointed in 1583
Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench. An unprinted Act
of Resumption of 1468 contains a saving of the rights
of the aforesaid Robert Dowdall. Edward Dowdall of
Glaspistol was one of the Representatives of the
County of Louth in Queen Elizabeth's first Parlia-
ment ; and Laurence Dowdall of Athlumney and
Nicholas Dowdall of Brownstown attended the cele-
brated meeting on the hill of Crofiy. The Attainders
of 1642 present the names of this Nicholas, Walter of
• Fagan MSS.
THE KINGS REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. 427
Athboy, and Laurence of Athlumney. The latter was
of the Confederate Catholics who adhered to the King
at the meeting in Kilkenny, and he was accordingly
excepted from pardon for life or estate in Cromwell's
Act of 1652. In a grant of Athlumney as forfeited
property to William Ridges in 1666, a saving was
inserted " of such right and no other as should be ad-
judged due to Sir Luke Dowdall, Knight, as a nomi-
nee in the town and lands of Athlumney." Besides
these Captains, there appear upon this List another
Edward Dowdall a Quarter-Master, and Joseph
Bowdall an Ensign in Lord Louth's Regiment of
Infantry ; while a John Dowdall, who does not appear
upon it, was, after its date, appointed Major of Lord
*Bellew's' Infantry. The list of names for the
Shrievalties in Ireland, sent over to Lord Clarendon
the Viceroy, contained for the County of Meath the
name of Launcelot Dowdall, with the observation, ' a
factious caballing whig ;' to which Clarendon replied
in comment, ' This gentleman is of an ancient Eng-
lish family in that county, where he behaves himself
with great sobriety, and is so far from being a favour-
ite of the whigs or caballing with them, that they are
dissatisfied with his being Sheriff, concluding him a
friend to the old natives of the County.**
John Dowdall was one of the Representatives of the
Borough of Dundalk in the Parliament of 1689, as
was Henry Dowdall, Recorder of Drogheda, for that
ancient town. This latter it was who, in duty of his
* Singers Correspondence of Lord Clarendon, v. 1, p. 286.
428 KIxXG JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
office, delivered that address of its Corporation to
King James, when entering the town on the 7th of
April, 1689, which is preserved in the Anthologia
Hihemka, (vol. 1, p. 42). The Attainders of 1691
comprise the names of the above Sir Luke, described
as Lucas Dowdall of Old Connaught, County of Dub-
lin, and of Dublin City ; Patrick of Navan, mer-
chant ; and Edward of Dublin and Moate ; besides
James Dowdall of Navan, merchant, George of
Cluncestown, Stephen of Athboy, Henry of Browns-
town and Drogheda, Joseph and Matthew of Cloran,
County of Westmeath, and Sylvester, son of Matthew
of said last mentioned place. Patrick of Dundalk
and Termonfeckin, John of Dundalk, Christopher and
John of Drogheda, merchants, Peter of Ardee, clerk,
and Walter Dowdall of Drumshallon, clerk.
Sir Lucas forfeited in Meath extensive estates, off
which his widow. Dame Katherine, claimed dower, but
was dismist, as were alike the claims of their
children Anne, Thomasine, and Mary Dowdall for
portions, and that of Daniel Dowdall, his son and
heir, by his guardian, for a fee therein. Margaret
Dowdall claimed in her own right and was allowed
the benefit of sundry debts due to her, but 'put out' in
the name of Patrick Dowdall, who was attainted ;
while she also claimed as one of the executors of
Lady Jane Dowdall a mortgage debt affecting the
County of Longford estate of said Patrick Dowdall.
Lady Alice Dowdall, otherwise Nugent, one of the
daughters of Kichard, late Earl of Westmeath, claimed
THE king's regiment OF INFANTRY. 429
a jointure of £180 off the Meath estates of Henry
Dowdall — dismist. Joseph Dowdall sought and was
allowed an estate tail in Westmeath lands forfeited by
Matthew Dowdall ; and Kedmond Dowdall, and Mary
his wife, claimed an estate tail in County of Limerick
lands forfeited by Tobias and John Dowdall, as did
said Mary her dower off these estates as the widow of
Tobias and under his will of 25th August, 1688.
The estates of Sir Lucas were subsequently sold in
lots to John Preston of Ardsallagh, Kobert Kochfort,
her Majesty's Attomey-General, Michael Shields of
Wainstown, John Drury of Dublin, and Kichard
Gorges, Esq. the patentee of Kilrue.
In the engagement at Lauffield village in 1747,
Lieutenant Dowdall, then ranking in Berwick's
Brigade, was wounded.
CAPTAIN SIR GREGORY BYRNE.
The O'Bymes were the formidable Chieftains of that
last subjugated district of Ireland, now the County of
Wicklow ; the present Barony of Ballinacor and the
Rainilogh were possessed exclusively by them, and
they, with the O'Tooles, the territorial Lords of the
remainder of this County, maintained for nearly four
centuries an unceasing war against Dublin and the
English Pale. So early after the introduction of sur-
names as 1119 the Four Masters record the death of
Aodh O'Brin (Byrne), Lord of East Leinster, and when
430 KixG James's ibish army list.
afterwards Dermot McMurrough invited the English
invasion, the O'Byrne, who was, in the adjustment of
Irish government, his tributary, although Dermot
confided in him as his last hope, renounced his allegi-
ance, and unhesitatingly opposed the invaders ; when,
being brought before ' Strongbow,' he was condemned
to death. In 1176, Malachy O'Byrne died Bishop of
Kildare. Murrough ' Mac Byrn ' of Rainilough and
Connor * O'Brin ' were of the Irish Chiefs, to whom
Henry the Third directed a special requisition for re-
pairing to his standard, and assisting him with their
forces against the King of Scotland.* In 1398,
Roger Mortimer, Earl of March and Ulster, and Lord
of Dunamase, was killed when endeavouring to reduce
this mountain Sept ; a catastrophe which induced the
second visit of the unfortunate Richard the Second to
Ireland, when the O'Byrne was fain to yield him ho-
mage.f In 1535, Lord Leonard Grey received inti-
mation that one of the Fitzgeralds, uniting with Lord
Baltinglas and a Chieftain of the O'Byrnes, had taken
their station in the valleys of Glendalough, that their
numbers were daily increasing, and * their excursions
were pestilent and audacious/ In two years after,
however, the O'Byrne made his submission to Lord
Grey. In the time of Queen EUizabeth, the celebrated
Feagh Mac Hugh was the Captain of the O'Byrnes ;
he it was whom Spencer commemorates, " so far
emboldened as to threaten peril even to Dublin, over
♦ Rymer's Foedera. f Davis's Hist. Rel. p. 22.
THE king's regiment OF INFANTRY. 431
whose neck he continually hung." His capture and
escape are well narrated by the Four Masters.
Two cruel Inquisitions were held at Newcastle, in
the County of Dublin in 1604, by operation of which
the estates of upwards of eighty of the O'Bymes of
Wicklow were declared forfeited to the Crown ; many
of them, as appears by the finding, having been killed
or taken prisoners and hanged by martial law during
the rebellion, which broke out 2nd of September, 36th
Elizabeth. In two years after, eighty-five others of
this devoted mountain Sept felt it necessary in pru-
dence to pay the fines and charges for patents of
pardon. The Attainders of 1642 include one
hundred and fifty-six CBymes in their old County,
with four in Dublin, three in the County of Kildare,
and one in Carlow. The Kilkenny Assembly of Con-
federate Catholics was attended by Hugh ' Brin ' of
Corinnon, Bryan ' Bume ' of Ballinacor, Bryan of
Rodine, James of Ballyaude, and John of Bally glann.
Cromwell's Denunciation Act of 1652 excepts two of
these Confederates, there described as Hugh Mac
Phelim and Bryan Mac Phelim Byrne, both of the
County of Wicklow, from pardon for life and estate.
In the Record Tower of Dublin Castle is a petition of
Phelim Byrne, soon after the Restoration, to recover
his ancient inheritance in Wicklow ; but it does not
seem to have been effective.
The above Captain Sir Gregory Byrne was resident
at Tymogue in the Queen's County ; in 1669, he
married Margaret Copley, sister and co-heiress of Sir
432 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
Christopher Copley, and grand-daughter of the first
Viscount Kanelagh ; in two years after he was
created a Baronet, and in 1685 his Lady died, leav-
ing issue by him an only son Daniel. Sir Gregory
was attainted in 1691 ; nevertheless, at the Court of
Chichester House he claimed estates in fee in divers
lands in the Queen's County, and in plots and houses
in Dublin ; but the claim was dismist as cautionary ;
while some other interests in the City and County of
Dublin were allowed to him. He married to his
second wife Alice Fleming, only daughter of Kandal
Lord Slane, by the Lady Penelope Moore, daughter of
Henry, Earl of Drogheda ; (the grand-daughter of
this union, having married into the family of Bryan
of Jenkinstown, her son sought to establish title to
the dormant title of Slane as heir general of Christo-
pher Lord Slane, and on the extinction of all interme-
diate issue). Besides this Captain, there are on the
present ' List ' Garret and John Byrne, Captains in
the Earl of Westmeath's Infantry. The former was
afterwards adjudged within the Articles of Limerick.
In the Parliament of Dublin, Hugh Byrne sat as one
of the Representatives of the Borough of Carysfort,
and Thomas Byrne as one of that of Wicklow. Sir
Gregory was outlawed on four Inquisitions in Dublin,
Meath, and the Queen's County ; while the scattered
quantity of these political attainders in 1692, in rela-
tion to the O'Byrnes, powerfully evinces the dispersion
from their native mountain fastnesses, to which this
devoted race were within a few years after its reduc-
THE king's regiment OF INFANTRY. 433
tion subjected. Nineteen of these Inquisitions were
held in the County of Wicklow, eight in Carlow,
seven in Westmeath, three in Meath, Dublin, and
Wexford respectively, two in the Queen's County, and
one in Louth ; while even in such remote settlements
as Derry and Galway two occur in the former and
one in the latter. At the Court of Claims, besides
those so made by Sir Gregory Byrne, Garret Byrne
claimedthe tithes of Rectories in Wicklow forfeited by
Hugh Byrne,— dismist for non-prosecution. Oflf the
forfeitures of Walter Byrne in the City of Dublin,
his widow claimed and was allowed an estate for life
under settlement of 1682 ; and Edmund Byrne
claimed and was allowed the fee of some estates of
Thady Byrne in the Barony of Arklow, County of
Wicklow.
In 1707, Dr. Edmund Byrne was the Roman Ca-
tholic Archbishop of Dublin. A proclamation issued
in 1712 for his apprehension, as well as of others
" who attempted to exercise ecclesiastical jurisdiction
contrary to the laws of the kingdom.''* In 1746,
' Comet Byrne' was one of the rebel officers taken
prisoner at sea, being in the 'Pretender's' service on
board the Charit^.f In 1757, Colonel O'Byme was
a distinguished officer in the Austrian service ; he
died in 1813.
• Hardiman's Galway, pp. 275-7.
t Gent. Mag. ad annuniy p. 145.
PF
434 KING James's irish army list.
CAPTAIN BARTHOLOMEW RUSSELL.
This name is of Irish record from the earliest period
after the Invasion, while the Four Masters relate the
death of Actin Russell in a battle between the Burkes
and O'Conors in 1263. In 1594, Sir William Rus-
sell was appointed Lord Justice of Ireland, when his
earliest movement was directed against the O'Bymes
at their stronghold of Ballinacor. The Attainders of
1642 comprise the names of Thomas Russell Ruagh
of Rush, Christopher Russell of Seatown, Andrew
Russell of Swords, Patrick of Brownstown, Nicholas
of Collinstown, Thomas of Drynam, and Francis of
Kilrush, all in the County of Dublin ; with Patrick
Russell of Rodanstown, County of Meath. In 1646,
George Russell of Rathmolin was one of the Confede-
rate Catholics assembled at Kilkenny.
A short time before the accession of King James,
Dr. Patrick Russell (of the family that, as shown by
the above attainders, was congregated about the
ancient town of Swords,) was appointed the Catholic
Archbishop of Dublin, in which dignity he continued
during that monarch's reign. In 1685, he held the
first Provincial Council at Dublin that had been
known for many years ; and Lord Clarendon, then
Viceroy, writing at that time to the Earl of Rochester
one of his state letters, says of this prelate, " He has
been with me, seems to be a good man, but no poli-
tician ; he is a secular."* In the peaceful course of
* Singer's Corresp. v. 1, p. 887.
THE king's EEGIMENT OF INFANTRY. 435
his life he continued, by synods and councils and
visitations, to inculcate humility and attention in his
clergy, and virtue and loyalty in their flocks."*
During his King's residence in the Irish metropolis, he
performed the service and rites of his church con-
stantly in the Koyal presence ; the last permitted
occasion of these solemnities having been for the
consecration of a Benedictine nunnery in Dublin.
On the downfall of the Stuart dynasty, he fled to
Paris, whence however he returned to close his life in
the land of his birth and ministry. At the termi-
nation of the year 1692 he died, and was buried in the
venerable church of Lusk near Swords. While he
was Primate, his principal residence was in the old
chapel-house at Francis-street, by the Fraternity of
which establishment an ancient censer is preserved
exhibiting the inscription, " Orate pro Patricio
Russell^ Archiepiscopo Dublinioe^ Primati Hibernian
et pro qus fratre Jacobo Russell^ Decano Duhlinice
et Prothonotario ApostoUcO^ qui me fieri fecitJ"^
During King James's reign he enjoyed a pension of
£200 per annum charged on the Irish Exchequer.
The above Captain Bartholomew Russell was the pro-
prietor of Seatown, County of Dublin, by which de-
scription he was attainted in 1691 ; while there
appear on this Army List Garret and Thomas Russell,
Ensigns in the Earl of Tyrone's Infantry (the latter
described on his attainder as of Ballymacscanlon,
County of Louth), and Christopher Russell (described
* D' Alton's Archbishops of Dublin, p. 454. t Idem. p. 45fi.
FF 2
436 KING James's irisu army list.
as of Seatown, County of Dublin) a Captain in Colonel
Cormuck CNeilFs Infantry.
The Attainders of 1691, besides the above officers,
include the names of Valentine Russell of Quoniams-
town, James of Russelstown, County of Westmeath,
Robert of Drynam (who had been one of 'the Repre-
sentatives of Swords in the Parliament of 1689), and
eight other Russells in the Counties of Cork, Water-
ford, Down, and Louth. Captain Bartholomew
forfeited much about Swords and in the Barony of
Nethercross. Thomas's confiscations were of portions
of the Rectorial tithes of Julianstown, Flatten, and
Dunany. Valentine's comprised extensive estates
in the County of Down, in which his son Patrick
Russell, then a minor, claimed an estate tail as
(lid his mother Mary Russell, alias Hanlon, by
Hugh Hanlon her Trustee, a rent charge in lieu of
dower under marriage articles of February, 1683.
Their petitions do not, however, appear to have been
allowed, and a portion of his estates, including Quon-
iamstown was sold by the Commissioners of the For-
feitures in 1703 to Robert Echlin of Rush, Esq.
Bridget, the only child and heiress of Robert Russell
of Drynam, married Andrew Cruise of the Naul
family. See post^ at Captain Francis Cruise, in the
Earl of Tyrone's Infantry.
THE king's regiment OF INFANTRY. 437
CAPTAIN THOMAS HACKETT.
This name 'Hecket' occurs on the Roll of Battle
Abbey as of one of the Knights who attended the Con-
queror from Normandy. His race early extended
over Worcestershire and Yorkshire. One of his
decendants, Paganus Hacket, came over to Ireland
with the English Invasion. He witnessed an en-
dowment from Hugh Tyrrell to the priory of Kilmain-
ham about 1180, and acquired, a grant of lands in the
district of Wicklow still known by the name of
Hacketstown,* which remained in his line until their
adhesion to the Earl of Desmond caused its confis-
cation in the time of Queen Elizabeth. In 1200,
Eowland Hacket was seised of lands near Einsale
County of Dublin ;t and in 1250, William Hacket
founded the Franciscan Friary, in Cashel. In
1302, John and Kobert 'Haket' were of the 'Fideles'
of Ireland, whose services were sought by special
Koyal mandate for the war in Scotland. J About the
same time, Robert and Walter Haket received similar
recognitions of the King's confidence,§ the latter
being entrusted with the custody of Newcastle
Mac Kinegan near Delgany. In 1356, Andrew
Hakett was Sheriff and Escheator of the County of
Cross-Tipperary. At the Battle of Agincourt, Rich-
ard Hakett was one of the Knights in the Duke of
* Lynch's Feudal Dignities, p. 255.
f Archdairs Monasticon, p. 152.
J Parliamentary Writs. § Roll in Irish Chancery.
438 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
Gloucester's retinue, as was another Kichard in Sir
Henry Hussey's, and a Walter Haket in Sir William
Bourchier's.* In 1460, David Haket was Bishop of
Ossory ; and in 1484, Peter Haket was Archbishop
of Cashel. In the sixteenth century, and it would
seem anterior to it, a branch of this family was estab-
lished in the county of Galway, and erected a castle
on a townland of that district which still bears the
name of Castle-Hacket. By Inquisition of 1584, it
was found that Ulick Mac Redmond Mac Meyler died
in 1571, seised of the castles of Castle-Hacket and
Cahir-Morris ; but that Mac Hacket, the chief of his
name, and others of the Sept of the Hackets, claimed
the aforesaid Castle of Castle-Hacket, with the two
quarters of land adjoining, f
The Attainders of 1642 comprise but one individual
in the old County, described as George Hackett of
Ballinahensy, County of Wicklow ; about which
time Thomas Hackett was transplanted to Connaught,
and others of the name settled in the County of Mayo,
where they seem now extinct. In 1672, Thomas
Hacket succeeded to the Sees of Down and Connor.
In 1678, Thomas Hacket, described as of Dublin,
merchant, an especial friend of the Duke of Tyrconnel,
had a grant of upwards of 1,000 statutable acres in
the Barony of Clare, County of Galway, with cer-
tain savings. In the Parliament of Dublin (1689),
Thomas Hackett, Bishop of Down and Connor, was
one of the spiritual Peers ; while in the Commons, Sir
* Nicholas's Agin court. f Hardiman's Galway, p. 21.
THE king's regiment OF INFANTRY. 439
Thomas Hacket represented Portarlington, as did
Alderman James the City of Cashel. Another Hac-
kett (James) appears on this Army List a Lieutenant
in Colonel Thomas Butler's Infantry. When King
James, after the Boyne, fled from Dublin through the
hills of Wicklow, he stopped for a few hours with some
followers at the house of a Mr. Hackett near Arklow,
whence he proceeded to Duncannon, arriving there
about sunrise. According to Archbishop King, a
Captain Robert Hacket was one of those who followed
the fortunes of James to France.
In 1691, was attainted Thomas Hackett, de-
scribed as of Cloncullen, with five others of the name.
It does not appear how far the estates of this Thomas
Hackett were affected by attainder, but by a Private
Act of the Irish Parliament in 1706, explained by
another of 1708, those of Sir Thomas Hacket were
vested in Trustees for the payment of his debts.
CAPTAIN THOMAS WARREN.
This ' name is ' of record in Ireland early in the reign
of Edward the Second, from which time it extended
its branches over all the Counties of the Pale. The
Attainders of 1642 present the names of six Warrens.
Of the Confederate Catholics at Kilkenny in 1646,
were Alexander Warren, then styled of Churchtown ;
Edward Warren, ' late of Dublin,' and William War-
ren of Casheltown. About the year 1667, William
440 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
and John Warren of Corduff joined in conveying a
parcel of Castlekuock to the Crown, for the purpose
of enlarging the Phoenix Park. This William War-
ren, as apj^ears by Inquisition of 1687, was seised of
upwards of 283 acres in Upper Castleknock, 51 in
Carpenterstown, and 58 in Lacken, which he had
settled in tail-mail on his nephew, the above Captain
Thomas, by deed of 22nd March, 1669.
It is of legal record that Lord Dongan, whom James
the Second afterwards created Earl of Limerick, leased
in 1688 lands in the County of Kildare to a Maurice
Warren for his life, and the lives of his nephews Ed-
ward and William Warren, with covenant for per-
petual renewal. William died in the camp of Dun-
dalk, while the lessor was in the Irish Army, and
Maurice himself (the lessee) died in 1691, when Gil-
bert, the eldest son of Maurice, entered on the lands,
but was unable to obtain a renewal, by reason that
the Earl of Athlone, the Patentee of the estates of the
attainted Earl of Limerick, was absent from Ireland.
On the establishment of 1687-8, a Mrs. Mary Warren
appears for a pension of £80. Thomas Warren was
then Sheriff of Dublin, as he was again in the year
of King James's sojourn there. He was attainted in
1691, by the description of Thomas Warren of Cor-
duff, County of Dublin, and of Warrenstown, County
of Meath. Besides this officer there appear of the
name on this Army List, John Warren a Captain,
and Richard Warren a Lieutenant in Sir Maurice
Eustace's Infantry. In Lord Bophin's, Laurence
THE king's regiment OF INFANTRY. 441
Warren was a Lieutenant. In Sir Michael Creagh's,
Edward was a Captain, as was Nicholas in Sir Charles
Cavenagh's (but appointed subsequent to the date of
the present Army List.) Said Captain John War-
ren was SheriflFof Dublin in 1686 ; in 1689 he was
a Deputy Lieutenant of the County, and in the Par-
liament of that year represented the Borough of Car-
low. He was attainted as of * Warrenstown, County
of Meath,' and also of Carlow, but his forfeitures lay
chiefly in the Queen's County, and in the County and
Town of Carlow. At the Court of Claims, Maurice
Warren claimed some judgment debts as affecting
the Carlow estate of John, some of which were allowed;
while Henry Warren claimed and was allowed a mort-
gage in fee on said property; and subject to these
charges his lands were sold in 1703 to Colonel Went-
worth Hardman, and to Walter Weldon of Rahin, as
were the town plots to Charles Bouleey. There were
also attainted in 1692 Patrick, James, and Michael
Warren, described as of Warrenstown, County of
Meath ; and Richard Warren of Carlow.
CAPTAINS WALTER AND GEORGE NANGLE.
" This," says Sir Bernard Burke, in his Landed
Gentry^ " is one of the most ancient Anglo-Norman
families in Ireland.'' Amongst the Knights who
accompanied Richard de Clare, Earl of Pembroke,
(Strongbow) to that country in 1169, were Gilbert
442 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
de Angulo and his two sons Jocelyn and Ilostilio.
From the latter descends the family of de Costello,
called Mac Hostilio or Mac Costello. Gilbert de An-
gulo obtained the territory of Maherigallen and other
lands in Meath ; whilst his eldest son Jocelyn acquired
Navan and the lands of Ardbraccan, whence his lineal
successors, the Nangles, were subsequently styled
Barons of Navan. His descendant in the fourteenth
generation, Sir Thomas Nangle, Baron of Navan,
married Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Jenico, third
Viscount Gormanstown, by Catherine, eldest daughter
of Gerald, ninth Earl of Kildare ; and had issue by
her eight sons, the youngest of whom, Walter Nangle
of Kildalkey in the County of Meath, was grandfather
of the above Captain Walter, who was himself father
of Captain George, as well as of Edward, a Lieutenant
herein, and of Garret or Gerald, a Lieutenant in Sir
Michael Creagh's Infantry, Captain Walter had
been SheriflFof Meath in 1687, and was one of the
Representatives of the Borough of Trim in the Parlia-
ment of 1689.
In 1605, Robert Nangle obtained a grant or con-
firmation from King James of the Manor and Castle
of Ballysax, with divers lands and tithes in the
Counties of Kildare and Tipperary, * in due acknow-
ledgment,' as was recited in the patent, of his wounds
and losses sustained in his several services of extra-
ordinary merit to the Crown. He was, however,
attainted in 1642, together with Matthew Nangle,
also styled of Ballysax, Roland of Ardrass, Peter of
THE king's regiment OF INFANTRY. 443
Naas, clerk ; Thomas Nangle, otherwise Baron of
Navan, and Jocelyn Nangle of Kildalkey (the younger
brother of the above Captain Walter). In 1646,
Roger Nangle, styled of Glynmore, was of the Con-
federate Catholics in the Supreme Council. On this
Army List, besides the Nangles in this Regiment,
Robert Nangle is mentioned by Mr. O'Callaghan as
having been a Major in Tyrconners Regiment. He
was killed near Raphoe in the skirmishes that pre-
ceded the siege of Derry. Walker, in his Diary of
the siege, writes (p. 62) that " Major Nangle was
drowned coining over at Lifford." The Inquisition of
Attainder on said Robert Nangle bears date in Sep-
tember, 1694, and finds him seised of various estates
in the County of Westmeath. In King James's New
Charters, John Nangle was appointed Portrieve in that
to Navan, while Walter was one of its Burgesses. In
another to Trim, Walter, Greorge, and Edward Nangle
were Burgesses, as was Walter in a third to Athboy.
Sir Richard Nagle before aUuded to (p. 147), where
the present notices should have been introduced, is
mentioned by Lord Clarendon * as " Richard Nangle,
a lawyer, a Roman Catholic, and a man of the best re-
putation for learning as well as honesty amongst the
people f and when, in May, 1686, he was ap-
pointed one of King James's Council, Lord Claren-
don, in a letter to the Duke of Ormond, thus com-
mented : " I do a little wonder to find Mr. Nan-
gle's name among them, though he be a very honest
* Singer's Corresp. of Ld. Clarendon, v. 1, p. 273.
444 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
and able man. Yet it is very extraordinary to
have a practising lawyer a Privy Councillor ; and
will not be very decent for him to follow his practice
or to quit his profession ; I believe he will not like it.
I am sure he had no mind to be a judge, and I believe
he will be as little pleased with this preferment.''*
Again, " I have not heard it was yet ever done but to
Sir Francis Bacon, when he was Attorney-General ;
and to satisfy his ambition by the credit he had with
the Duke of Buckingham, or rather by importunity
he was made a Privy Councillor, but never appeared
afterwards in Westminster Hall, unless the King's
business required him.^f Nangle (Nagle) declined
the honor, and the King accepted his resignation.
The Attainders of 1691 comprise the above Walter
and Greorge, together with Edward Nangle of Kil-
dalkey, Francis of Harberston, John of Navan, Gerald
of Mayne, Piers of Kilmihill, and Robert Nangle, all
of the County of Westmeath. At the Court of
Chichester House, Walter Nangle claimed and was
allowed an estate tail in Meath lands forfeited by the
above Captain Walter, as did Margaret Nangle her
jointure off said estate, and also off Walter's West-
meath estates ; while Penelope Nangle claimed a
jointure and her son Robert (a minor) an estate tail
in the Westmeath lands of Robert Nangle. A great
portion of Captain Walter Nangle's estate in Meath
was aft;erwards sold to John AsgiU of Dublin, as were
* Singer's Corresp. of Lord Clarendon, vol. 1, p. 411.
t Idem. p. 417.
THE king's regiment OF INFANTRY. 445
Robert Nangle's estates in Westmeath to the Hollow
Swords Blades' Company.
CAPTAIN JOHN SEGRAVE.
The name of Segrave or Sedgrave is of record in
Ireland from the time of Edward the Second, their
chief seat being early recorded as at Killeglan in the
County of Meath. See further of this name post^ at
Captain Francis Segrave, in Sir Maurice Eustace's
Infantry. In a confirmatory grant of 1668, of lands
and premises in various counties to Charles Viscount
Fitz-Harding, the rights of John Segrave to certain
houses and plots within the Manor of Rathmore were
especially saved, and he may possibly be the above
Captain, afterwards attainted as of Cabra, County of
Dublin, and Burtonstown, County of Meath. He was,
however, adjudged within the Articles of Limerick.
Besides this Captain John, there appear on the Army
List said Francis, a Captain, and Laurence Segrave,
his Lieutenant, in Sir Maurice Eustace's Infantry.
The attainders of 1691 present the names of the
above Captain and John Segrave, with those of
Gilbert and Nicholas Segrave of Ballyhack, County of
Meath, and Francis Segrave of Fryarstown and of
Rosberry, County of Kildare.
446 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
CAPTAIN SIR ANTHONY MULLEDY.
The O'MuUedy's were an ancient sept of the King's
County and We«tmeatli, located near Gany-Castle.
In 1447, Cornelius O'Mulledy succeeded to the See of
Clonfert, wlience in the following year he was trans-
lated to that of Emly . The only individual of the name
attainted in 1642 was styled Patrick 0' * Mulhuiy,
Baronet, of Ballinver, County of Meath. A letter is
extant of the 10th of August, 1690, from the Wil-
liamite Colonel Wolseley to Secretary Southwell,
' from the camp near Mullingar ;' in which he says,
'' We had advices from Colonel Babington that 2,000
of the enemy were got together at Tyrrelspass,
they advanced with about 1 20 Horse, ' who' our men
charged and broke ; the night came upon us or
else we had done great execution; as it was, we killed
between 80 and 100, and have taken prisoners tliree
of the greatest rogues amongst them, viz. Andrew
Tuite, James Ledwich, and Redmund Mulledy, late
Sheriff for King James. They are no soldiers nor
have any commission for what they do, and therefore
I have a great mind to hang them if His Majesty will
either give orders for it or say nothing about it, but
leave me to myself ; for I am well assured that an
Irishman is to be taught his duty only by the rod.
Tuite's father holds out a garrison now in an island
within two miles of this place. I conceive the whole
number of this party were about 1,000 ; one Nugent,
THE king's regiment OF INFANTRY. 447
the present SheriflF for King James, headed them/**
Dean Story reports the transaction as that " one
Mulledy, late High SheriflF of Longford, got at least
3,000 of rabble or such like near Mullingar, where
they hectored and swaggered for some days," adding,
that Colonel Wolseley fell in with the party and killed
about thirty of them, " High SheriflT Mulledy being
wounded and never since able to raise such a ^ posse
comitatus.^^ Those of this name attainted in 1691
were the above Anthony Mulledy, described as of
Bobertstown, Knight ; Redmund Mulledy of Grange-
more, and Hugh Mulledy of Rathwyre, in the County
of Westmeath ; John Mulledy of Dublin, and John
Mulledy of BaDintobber, County of Mayo. The estates
of Redmund and Hugh Mulledy, comprising the
Lordship of Rathwyre and various other lands, &c.,
in the County of Westmeath, were sold by the Com-
missioners of Forfeited Estates to Chichester Phillips
of Drumcondra, County of Dublin, and a larger
proportion to Robert Pakenham of Bracklyn. Those
of the above Captain Sir Anthony lay in the Baronies
of Dunboyne and Ratoath, County of Meath.
CAPTAIN THOMAS ARUNDEL.
This name is of Irish record from the time of Edward
the Second. Several links in the pedigree of Arun-
dells of Main, in the County of Limerick, in the 17th
* Clarke's MSS. Correspondence, Trin. Coll. liby. Lett. Ixxxiii.
448 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY UST.
century, are given in a genealogical manuscript in
Trinity College, Dublin (F 3, 27). In the Munster
war of 1600, Paul Arundel was a Captain in Lord
Audley's Regiment of Infantry. The Attainders of
1642 present the names of Garret Arundel and Garret
Oge Arundel, both described as of Aghdullane, County
of Cork. Lord Henry, the third Baron Arundell of
Wardour, who was one of the persons committed to
prison in 1678 on the information of the infamous
Titus Gates, after suffering five years' incarceration,
was released, and on King James's accession to the
throne was sworn of the Privy Council. In the fol-
lowing year he was constituted Lord Keeper of the
Privy Seal, and honored with the order of the Bath.
In the will which King James executed at Whitehall,
on the eve of his abdication, 17th November, 1688,
he appointed this nobleman the adviser of his Queen,
and he is one of the witnesses to the instrument.
Gn that King's departure. Lord Arundel, retiring
from public life, secluded himself at Breamore in
Wilts, where he died 28th December, 1694.* The
above Captain Arundel fell at the battle of the Boyne.f
LIEUTENANT THGMAS WAFER.
The Attainders of 1642 name amongst the forfeiting
proprietors Francis Wafer of Gyanstown, County of
Burke's Peerage, p 36. f Clarke's James II. v. 2, p. 399.
THE KL\tfS REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. 449
Meath, and those of 1691 have the same name as of
Castletown in said County.
LIEUTENANT JOHN EDWARDS.
Though this name is of Irish record since the time of
the Tudors, nothing worthy of notice connected with
this individual has been discovered-
LIEUTENANT EDMUND FAHY.
The OTahys were an ancient sept of the County of
Galway, while the only notice attainable here is of an
Adjutant Fahy, who, according to Walker,* was
killed at Derry.
LIEUTENANT JOHN CLANCY.
This was the name of a clan tributary to the O'Bryan,
yet in the time of Elizabeth so influential, that in
Clare, Boetius ' Glanchy' was one of the Eepresenta-
tives of that County in Sir John Perrot's Parliament
of 1585, and was afterwards its Sheriff. The name
of this Lieutenant does not appear on the Attainders
of 1692, which suggests that he may have fallen in
the campaign. Those outlawries have the names of
* Siege of Deny, p. 86.
GO
450 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
Murtough and James Clancy of Knocklane, and another
Boetius Clancy of ' Glancan/ both in said County.
LIEUTENANT CHRISTOPHER WELDON.
This name is of record on Irish Rolls from the time
of Richard the Second ; and James Weldon, described
as of Newry, was of the Confederate Catholics at
Kilkenny in 1647.
LIEUTENANT EDMUND BRENNAN.
The Mac Brannans were chiefs of Corcaghlan, a dis-
trict of the County of Roscommon, forming part of
that in which is the well-known mountain Slieve-
Ban. So early as in the year 1150, the Masters
record the death of Maolisa Brannan, Archdeacon of
Derry ; and in 1159 that of Branan Mac Branan,
chief of Corcaighlann, in a battle between the O'Conors
and O'Briens. The Kilkenny Supreme Council of 1646
had of its Commons, John Brennan, styled of Cloyne-
finlough.
LIEUTENANT DAVID NIHILL.
Besides this officer, a Peter ' Nihill' was Lieutenant
in Lord Kilmallock's Infantry. On the Attainders of
1691 are the names of James Nihill of Limerick and
THE king's regiment OF INFANTRY. 451
Dublin, and the above David Nihill, styled of the
Barony of Tulla, County of Clare. In the lands of
the latter, Laurence Nihill claimed an estate tail, but
was dismist, while Elinor Nihill, alias Hackett, as his
widow and executrix, sought and was allowed a third
part of his Clare estates, as in pursuance of his will
of 1683 ; and Robert Woulfe made a claim thereon
for the portion of his wife Anstace, a daughter of said
David. At the battle of Lauffield in 1 746, Lieutenant
Nihillj of Dillon's Regiment, was killed.
LIEUTENANT CHRISTOPHER AND ENSIGN
MATTHEW TAAFFE.
This Cambrian name is of record in Ireland from the
time of the English invasion. In 1287 flourished
Sir Nicholas Taaffe, whose son John Taaffe was by the
Pope's provision consecrated Archbishop of Armagh.
He died at Rome in 1306, after taking the mitre, but
never saw his see.* In 1295, Richard Taaffe was
Sheriff of Dublin, and, in 1311, a member of the Par-
liament of Kilkenny. In 1373 and 1375, Richard
Taaffe of Ballybragan and John Taaffe were summoned
to Great Councils ; and in 1376, John Taaffe of
CastJe-Lumnagh was Sheriff of Louth. In 1479, Sir
Laurence Taaffe, the descendant of the above Sir
Nicholas, was one of the honorable fraternity of St.
* Ware's Bishops, p. 71.
GG 2
452 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
George in Ireland on its first institution ; and in
1560, Nicholas TaaflFe of Ballybragan was Sheriff of
Louth.*
In 1628, Sir John Taaffe of this family was ad-
vanced to the Peerage by the titles of Baron of
Ballymote and Viscount Corran, in the County of
Sligo. His eldest son Theobald was created Earl of
Carlingford in 1661 ; his second son Lucas Taaffe was
a Major-General in the Irish Army during the Com-
monwealth, was appointed Governor of Ross in 1649,
and defended that town against Cromwell, but, being
subsequently obliged to expatriate himself, served as a
Colonel in Italy and Spain, whence on the Restoration
he returned and died in Ireland.! On the Attainders
of 1642, the only Taaffe is Laurence Taaffe, described
as of ' Killen,' County of Meath. Cromwell's Ordi-
nance of 1652 excepted from pardon for life and
estate Theobald, ' Viscount Taaffe of Corran,' and
Luke Taaffe, his brother. In 1665, by the operation
of the Act of Settlement, the aforesaid Lucas, by the
style of Colonel Lucas Taaffe, and Elizabeth his wife,
were restored to the " jointure, portions, lands, &c.,
which she or any for her use had held and enjoyed f
while Theobald his brother, the Viscount, was likewise
restored to his estates, and directed to have and enjoy
to him and his heirs the manors, lands, &c., whereof
Christopher Taaffe of Bryanstown and Taaffe of
Cockston were seised on the 23rd of October, 1641.
♦ See Dalton's Drogheda, v. 2, p. 162.
t Burke's Extinct Peerage.
THE king's regiment OF INFANTRY. 453
He had likewise a i)ension of £800 per annum on
the establishment, with other substantial marks of
Royal favour, and died in December, 1677. His son
Nicholas was a Colonel in this campaign, but not on
the present Army List. In King James's Charters
of 1697, John Taaffe was one of the Burgesses in that
to Sligo ; as were John ' Taafe,' merchant, George,
Peter, Nicholas, and another John in one to the
Borough of Ardee.
Besides those of the name in this Regiment, Nicho-
las Taaffe was a Cornet in Tyrconnel's Horse, and
Thomas Taaffe a Quarter-Master in Sarsfield's. At
the siege of Derry, a Major John Taaffe, who was
brother to the Peer of Carlingford,was killed at Penny-
burn Mill. In King James's Parliament of Dublin
sat in the House of Peers Nicholas, Earl of Carling-
ford, who was soon after despatched as a confidential
envoy to the Emperor Leopold ; from which embassy
returning, he in the following year commanded a Regi-
ment of Infantry at the Boyne, where he fell heading
a charge. He had married, but left no issue ;*
whereupon his honors devolved upon his brother
Francis Taaffe, the celebrated Count Taaffe of the Ger-
manic Empire ; he ranked there a Marshal, and when
he succeeded to his honors in his native land, was, by
a special clause in the acts of William and Mary,
saved from the consequences of outlawry and attain-
der. He was Colonel of the Royal Cuirassiers under
the Emperor, and Lieutenant-General of the Horse
* Archdall's Lodge, v. 5, p. 296.
454 KING James's irish army list.
(see of him fully in O'CallagharCs Irish Brigades,
vol. 1, p. 370, &c.) After the disastrous day at the
Boyne, Mr. TaaflFe, 'the Duke of Tyrconnel's chaplain/
"a very honest and discreet clergyman,"* was one of
those who strongly laboured to persuade his discomfited
Sovereign to fly from Dublin. The Attainders of
1691 contain the names of the above Christopher
Taaffe, styled of Steplienstown ; five others in the
County of Louth ; and one, Francis Taaffe of Bally-
mote, County of Sligo. At Chichester House, a
Theobald Taaffie claimed and was allowed the benefit
of sundry mortgages affiecting the Louth and Sligo
estates of Lord Carlingford. Of the services of Taaffe's
Brigaded Regiment, see 'OConar's Military Memoirs,
pp. 251-2 and 262.
LIEUTENANT PETER BATHE.
This family is of record here from the time of Edward
the Second, having come, from Devonshire, where
Bathe House was long the designation of the locality
of its settlement. In Ireland the name first ap-
pears in the person of Simon Bathe, a proprietor of
lands in the County of Limerick at the commence-
ment of the fourteenth century. In 1327, Richard
de Burgo, Earl of Ulster, having recently died in-
debted to the King, Matthew de Bathe was commanded
on his allegiance and under heavy penalties, to take
* Clarke's James II. v. 2. p. 402.
THE king's regiment OF INFANTRY. 455
into his custody and care all money and jewels, silver
vessels, and all other the goods and chattels of the said
Earl, and them safely to keep until he received the
Royal commands. This Matthew continued a confi-
dential subject of King Edward, and of his successor
Edward the Third, the latter having in 1333 granted
to him the manor of Rathfay in the County of Meath,
with the advowson. In 1381, Thomas Bathe, clerk,
was appointed Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer,
in which year he had an allowance of £6 for his
expences as a Commissioner, in levying the forfeited
two-thirds oflF lands of absentees. In four years after,
he had a Treasury order for his expences on passing
over to England, to acquaint the King with the state
of Ireland ; and in 1393 was one of the Lords Justices.
By an unprinted stSLtntQ of the Parliament of Drogheda
in 1640, (c. 9), it was enacted that Thomas Bathe,
Knight, 'who pretends to be Lord of Louth,' shall ap-
pear in court on a certain day or be out of the King's
protection ; and it was further thereby ordered that
said Thomas Bathe shall never have place in the Par-
liament of this land, nor shall enjoy any office therein
under the King's grant. His lands in Louth appear
to have been thereupon seized as forfeited ; but a sub-
sequent act of the same session (c. 21) restored John
Bathe of Ardee, who seems to have been his son or
relative, to certain messuages, lands, and tenements in
Dromisken, Dundalk, and other places in the County of
Louth, which were kept from him under order of forfei-
tures. In 1533, William Bathe of Dollardstown was
Yice-Treasmer "^ '" ' soon afterwards at-
4d6 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
tainted. In 1535, James Bathe of Drumconrath was
appointed Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer; when
he fixed his residence in the fine old Castle of Drym-
nagh near Dublin, whose ruins are still interesting.*
In 1554, John Bathe of Drumconrath and Athcarne
was appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in
Ireland. In 1564, his son and namesake was Attor-
ney-general for Ireland, and afterwards Chancellor of
the Exchequer, and his daughter Eleanor was married
to Nicholas NetterviUe, who in 1622 was created the
first Viscount Netterville of Dowth. In 1581, Wil-
liam Bathe was constituted a Justice of the Common
Pleas ; and, in the Parliament convened by Sir John
Perrot in four years after, Thomas Bathe was one of
the Representatives for Dundalk. * A note (of about
this period) of persons born in Ireland but residing
beyond seas 'f has the names of Luke Bath, a Capuchin
friar in Cologne ; William Batlie, a Jesuit in Sala-
manca ; and John Bath, a Knight of Malta (^ as is
reputed') at the Court of Madrid. In 1611, King
James granted to John Bathe of Balgriffen, County of
Dublin, the manor, &c. of Balgrifien, to hold by the
service of a rose on St. John's day, with various other
lands and premises in the Counties of Kildare, Meath,
Westmeath, and the City of Dublin. The Act of
1612, for the attainder of the Earl of Tyrone and his
adherents, included John Bathe of Dunalong, County
of Tyrone, and John Bath, late of Drogheda, merchant.
• See D' Alton's County of Dublin, p. 700, &c.
t MSS. in Triu. Coll. Dub. (E. 3, 8, f. 46.)
THE king's regiment OF INFANTRY. 457
In 1641, James Bathe of Athcame was one of the
gentry of the County of Meath, who assembled at the
Hill of Crofty to parley with Roger Moore and his
adherents of Ulster. He was consequently attainted
in the following year, with Robert Bath of Killussy^
County of Kildare ; William and Robert Bathe of
Clonturk, County of Dublin, and Patrick Bathe of the
ancient inheritance of Rathfay, County of Meath. In
the Commons of the Supreme Council at Kilkenny
sat Peter Bathe Fitz-Robert, late of Dublin, Peter
Bathe of Kilkenny, Robert Bath of Clonturk, and
Robert Bath, late of Dublin. This Peter Fitz-Robert
forfeited Athcame Castle, which was thereupon granted
to Colonel Grace in 1673. Before the Act of Ex-
planation in 1665, Sir Luke Bathe was ordered to be
restored to his estate, and to those which his deceasedf
father James Bathe had held on the 22nd of October,
1641, with certain exceptions. The Attainders of
1691 included Christopher Bathe of Knightstown,
Michael and James Bathe of Lady-Rath, Peter Bathe
of Ashbourne (where he seems to have lived after the
previous loss of Athcarne) Andrew Bathe of Drogheda,
merchant, and Edward Bathe of Painstown, County
of Louth. At Chichester House, James Bathe, a
minor, by Stephen Bath his guardian, claimed under
settlement of November, 1694, an estate for life to
himself with remainders in tail to his sons, (aft;er the
death of Peter Bathe and Mary his wife,) in the
County of Meath lands theretofore forfeited by Chris-
topher Bathe ; while Elizabeth Bathe, the wife of said
458 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
Christopher, claimed also an estate for her life therein,
after the death of said Peter. On the subsequent sale
of Athcarne Castle and its lands by the Trustees of
the forfeited estates, it appeared that, having been for-
feited as before mentioned by Peter Bathe, it vested
on mesne assignment in King James, when Duke of
York, and was then sold by the Trustees, as his private
estate, to Thomas Somerville of Dublin, subject to a
lease (allowed by the Commissioners) to Greorge Ayl-
mer, Launcelot Dowdall, Esqs. and Dame Cicely
Bath, for 99 years, from January, 1668, at a pepjier-
corn rent.
LIEUTENANT EDWARD TIPPER.
This officer is described in his attainder as of a local-
ity in the County of Kildare, that took its name of
Tippcrstown from the family. Francis Tipper was
also a Lieutenant in Sir Maurice Eustace's Infantry,
and a William Tipper appeal's to have been at the
same time attainted in this County, on whose estates
there, another William claimed an estate for life with
remainders in tail to his sons.
LIEUTENANT THOMAS SKELTON.
A Charles Skelton also appears on this List a Lieu-
tenant in Colonel John Parker's Horse, yet neither of
THE king's regiment OF INFANTRY. 459
these names appears on the Attainders of 1691, which
comprise only John of Dublin, Bevil Skelton of Dub-
lin, and Maria Skelton, alias O'Brien his wife. In
1689, July the 1st, a Lieutenant-Colonel Skelton is
recorded as having been joined in commission with
Colonel Dominick Sheldon, to conclude a treaty with
the garrison of Derry on that day. In a genealogical
manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin, are links of a
pedigree of the Skeltons of the County of Limerick
for five generations.
LIEUTENANT CHARLES POVEY.
None of this name appear on the Attainders, and it
would seem rather of the opposite politics. In
1673, John Povey, Knight, and theretofore Baron of
the Exchequer in Ireland, was appointed Chief Jus-
tice of the Kings Bench ; and in 1702, Richard
Povey was appointed principal Serjeant-at-arms.
The connections of this Lieutenant are, however,
wholly unknown.
LIEUTENANT JOHN MORGAN.
One of this name was an Ensign in Fitz-James's In-
fantry. Three Morgans were attainted in 1642. At
the battle of Newberry, fought in 1643, a Colonel
Morgan was killed on the Royalist side ; while at
460 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
Aughrim fell a Lieutenant-Colonel of the name.*
The Morgans attainted in 1692 were Joseph of Cooks-
town, and Edward of Drogheda, merchant.
ENSIGN TALBOT SALTER.
Nothing has been ascertained of him or his family.
ENSIGN JAMES TOUCHETT.
The family of Touchett came into England with the
Conqueror, as recorded on the Roll of Battle Abbey,
and in the Chronicles of Normandy. In 1405, John
Touchett was summoned to Parliament in England as
Lord Audley ; his great grandson James Audley was
attainted in the time of Henry the Seventh, but his
son was restored to his rank in 1513, and his great
grandson, George Lord Audley, took up his residence
in Ireland, where in the year 1610, in consideration
of an annuity or rentcharge of £500 English secured
to him for his life, he assigned " to Sir Mervyn
'Tuchett,' Knight, his son and heir apparent, his
whole estate in Ireland, to hold to him thenceforth in
fee, together with aU his stock of cattle and com, and
all other goods and chattels in Ireland, reserving to
his Lordship some chattels and household stufi^, and
he, said Sir Mervyn, paying to Sir Ferdinando Tuchett,
* Story's Impartial Histoiy, pt. 2, p. 138.
THE king's regiment OF INFANTRY. 461
Knight, second son of said Lord Audley, an annuity
of one hundred marks in the Middle Temple Hall,
London ; and being bound after his Lordship's death,
to convey over to the said Ferdinando the fee of lands
in England or L:«land, to the clear yearly value of
£100 sterling.* Lord George was in seven years
after advanced in the Irish Peerage to the dignities
of Baron Oriel and Earl of Castlehaven. His grand-
son, James Touchet, Earl of Castlehaven, during the
civil wars of Ireland commanded under the Duke of
Ormonde, and in 1649 was chosen General of the
Irish forces. He and his brother were therefore, in
Cromwell's Ordinance of 1652, excepted from pardon
for life and estate. His son Mervyn, Earl of Castle-
haven, was of the Peers in King James's Parliament
of 1689, and had a pension of £500 per annum^
charged on the establishment of 1687-8. Mervyn's
son James, afterwards the Earl, is possibly identical
with the above Ensign James.
ENSIGN NICHOLAS TYRWHITT.
Nothing known of him or his family.
* Rot. Pat. Jac. 1, Cam. Hib. This Lord and his Lady had a
grant in 1612, of various lands in the County of Armagh, as
had the said Sir Mervyn of yet more in the Coimty of Tyrone,
to hold subject to the conditions of the Plantation of Ulster.
462 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
ENSIGN EDWARD TOOLE.
Some, who write of the battle of the Boyne, allege that
the death of the Duke of Schomberg, while passing
that river, was caused by a shot from OToole, ' an
exempt of the King's Guard,' and affect to call this
guardsman Sir Charles Toole; but the name of this only
Toole in tlie Infantry Guards would lead to an infer-
ence of his identity with the transaction. The very
ancient sept of the O'Tooles were independent Princes
of Imaile and Cuolan, in the wild mountain district
forming a moiety of what had been in the time of
James the First reduced to English government, and
erected into tlie County of Wicklow. They constituted
one of the septs that were eligible to the dignity of
Kings of Leinster, and their territory formed the
Diocese of Glen-da-lough, whose bishops and abbots
they exercised the prerogative of appointing, down to
1497, when it was united to the Archiepiscopal See
of Dublin. A few years before the English Invasion,
Laurence O'Toole, afterwards canonized, was advanced
from the Abbacy of Glendalough to the Archbisliopric
of Dublin.* The death of his father is recorded by
the Masters at 1164. In 1308, the infamous
Piers Gaveston diverted the interval of his official
exile to Ireland, in penetrating the country of the
OTooles, wliose stronghold at Castle-Kevin he is
• See of this illustrious Prelate, fully, D'Altoii's Archbishops
of Dublin, p. 51, &c.
THE king's regiment OF INFANTRY. 463
reported to have stormed, afterwards laying his offer-
ings, as of atonement, at the shrine of St. Kevin in
Glendalough. In 1327, David OToole, then Captain
of the Sept, was taken prisoner by Sir John de
Wellesley, ancestor of 'the Duke/ In 1366, the Lord
Deputy made a treaty with Hugh OToole, then the
Captain, whereby he agreed to allow-that chieftain a
stipend in the nature of black mail, to secure the Pale
from the predatory incursions of his followers.* This
policy of bounty was in the history of the Pale so
frequently necessitated for its security, that an Act
of the Irish legislature (28 Hen. 8, c. 11) was passed
" for restraining tributes given to Irishmen." In
1396, say the Four Masters, " the English of Leinster
were defeated by O'Toole with great slaughter." It
was on the occasion of this continued foray, that
Roger Mortimer, then Earl of March, King Richard's
Vicegerent in Ireland, and the heir presumptive to the
English Crown, was surprised, defeated, and slain.
Therefore it was, and with the object of chastising
* the insolence of the Irish,' and avenging the death
of Mortimer, that the English Monarch undertook his
second journey to Ireland; ^but to raise another
patriot hero in ArtMacMurrough, for the veneration of
that country, and to consummate his own dethronement.
In 1497, Sir William Wellesley of Dangan, the lineal
descendant of the aforesaid John, who had done such
active service against the OTooles, was fain to espouse
one of this denounced Sept, Matilda OToole, having
* Mason 8 Irish Parliaments, p. 22.
464 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
first, as was necessary, obtained a Royal letter of
licence, dated the 30th of May in this year, whereby
she and their heirs were admitted to the benefit
of English laws and English liberties, and thus
exempted from the many penal statutes then in force
against alliances with the native Irish. It is singular
that pedigree compilations omit to mention this mar-
riage ; but, while the licence is of record in Chancery,
the fact is yet more assured by a patent of 1506,
whereby King Henry the Seventh pardoned Patrick
Hussey and 'Maw' O'Toole, his wife (lately the wife
of Sir William WeUesley of Dangan)^ for their inter-
marrying without having first obtained the Royal
licence.
Spencer in his ' View of Ireland ' characterizes the
OTooles and O'Bymes as ' the two mischievous clans
that inhabited the glyns of Wicklow.' The Four
Masters are very full in the particulars of the
OToole's resistance to subjugation, especially in 1580.
In the time of James the First, however, O'Toole, ' the
Lord of Imaile,' furnished to military muster 24
horsemen and 80 Kerns; yet were many of the Sept
then attainted, as were in 1642 no less than twenty-
four CTooles, great proprietors in Wicklow. In the
Irish Parliament of 1689, Francis Toole sat as Repre-
sentative of the Borough of Wicklow, while on the
List of Colonels prefixed to the present Army List
the name of Francis Toole appears, Colonel of an In-
dependent Company of Fusiliers ; but, as he is
omitted in the subsequent details, the memoir of the
THE king's regiment OF INFANTRY. 465
name should be attached to Ensign Edward. The
forfeitures of 1691 exhibit but six OTooles as of
Wicklow, and one in each of three other Counties,
Carlow, Kildare, and Wexford. Several of this name
were afterwards distinguished officers in the Irish
Brigades serving in France and Spain ; and in 1719,
Captain OToole, with Colonel Wogan of the Rathco%
line, and two others of the Irish Brigade in the
service of the latter power, succeeded in carrying oflf
Maria-Clementina Sobieski, (grand-daughter of the
celebrated John Sobieski, King of Poland, who
defeated the Turks before Vienna), then betrothed to
James the Third, as the Pretender was styled by
them. They effected her liberation from the Castle of
Inspruck in the Tyrol, where she had been detained
for some previous months by command of the Emperor
Charles VI. at the instance of George the First.
From hence they brought her in disguise to Monte
Fiascone within the Pope's dominions, where James
himself met her, and their marriage was celebrated.
The Pope, on their repairing to Rome, received the
gallant officers most cordially, and created them
Knights of the Holy Roman order.*
ENSIGN THOMAS POYNTZ.
NOTHINO has been ascertained of him or his connec-
tions.
466 KI5G iA3r£S S lUSH AUfT LIST.
REGIMENTS OF IXFAXTRT.
COLOXEL JOHN HAMILTON'S-
TlMCo;abel Anthocj Coicoan.
JaiBM XajKt,
LMat.«CoL
Jolm Talbot.
Major.
[Jainea Gibbet, Snd 3UJ9r.]
Dtaiel O'Han. Kcue O'Ein. Connick O'HflB.
JohnSUmky. Andrew Dnfie.
KicfaolM HsTokL BMtbolomev HarroM. Fnncis Wairen.
Ednnmd Marpbj. LAwrcnoe DnSe. Cbaiiea Saoden.
Maorioe Fitzgerald.
Jaam Gibbom. >
Anthanj Gcoghegan.
Sienr da Ptmtt, Walter Planketi.
Gmud.
COLONEL JOHN HAMILTON.
This Officer, says Colonel O'Kelly^s narrative,* was
one of these deputed by Tyrconnel, during his absence
from the government on attendance at St Germains,
t() guide and advise the young Duke of Berwick. He
was the brother as well of General Richard Hamil-
ton who was taken prisoner at the Boyne, as of the
accomplished Colonel Anthony Hamilton who fought
against the Enniskilleners, and wrote the well-known
* Memoirs of Grammont.' The above Colonel John
* O'Callaghan^s Macaria Exddium^ p. 88.
JOHN HAMILTON'S INFANTRY. 467
ranked as a Major-General and a Brigadier at Augh-
rim, where he was taken prisoner * O'Conor, in his
Military Memoirs^ (p. 143), says that this General
was with a force detached to the aid of besieged
Limerick, too late for its last struggle ; the enemy
were in possession of the ramparts, and drove back
the designed relief to their camp.
CAPTAIN DANIEL O'HARA.
Of the noble Sept of O'Hara the Chief was Lord of
Luigne, in the County of Sligo, a territory which
comprised the present Barony of Leney with parts of
those of CosteUo and Gallan. At so early a period as
1023, the death of Donagh O'Hara, Lord of Luigne,
is noted by the Four Masters ; as is the death of
Duncan O'Hara, Lord of the Three Tribes of Luigne,
in 1059. From which period the succession of their
Tanists or Captains is set down with singular exact-
ness to a comparatively recent date, in a venerable
Irish manuscript entitled the * Book of the O'Haras.'
By one of these Chiefs, Keane O'Hara, Templehouse
was erected early in the fourteenth century, within
their principality, and on the site of an ancient
foundation of the Knights Templars. The Abbey of
Court, whose ruins are still discernible, was soon
after founded by another of the O'Haras. The above
Officer, €aptain Daniel was, it will be seen, of an An-
♦ Story's Impartial Hist., pt. 2, p 187.
nn 2
468 KING JAMES'S IRISU ARMY LIST.
trim branch of the family, of whom in 1608, in awe
of the Plantation system, Cahill O'Hara, John Oge
O'Hara, John Grome O'Hara, and Donnel O'Hara
sought and obtained patents of pardon and protection.
Of these, Cahill in 1612 obtained a patent for holding
a weekly market at Crebilly, with right of pie powder
and the usual tolls.* In 1627, Cormac O'Hara was
Sheriff of the County of Antrim. A Manuscript
Book of Obits in Trinity College, Dublin, supplies
links in the pedigree of this northern family for five
generations. Besides the above Captain Daniel,
Keane his Lieutenant, and Cormick O'Hara his
Ensign, who in their attainders are described as of
Loghdale, County of Antrim, there are upon this
Army List, another Cormack O'Hara, Captain in
Colonel Cormuck O'Neill's Infantry, in which Arthur
O'Hara of Farris in said County was a Lieutenant,
and Manus O'Hara an Ensign ; while in Colonel
Dominick Browne's, John O'Hara, son of Thadeus
O'Hara of Crebilly, was a Lieutenant. All these
were consequently attainted in 1691, with tihe ad-
dition of Roger O'Hara of Montagh, in the County
of Sligo.
In 1692, Sir Charles ' Hara ' and others obtained a
patent grant from King William and Queen Mary for
lighting Dublin with convex lamps.f A Charles Hara
was afterwards wounded at the battle of Landon.J
The name of O'Hara was subsequently ennobled in
• Rot. Pat. 9, Jac. 1, in Cane. Hib.
t Harris's MSS. Dub. Soc. v. 10, pp. 9, &c.
\ Rawdon Papers, p. 379.
JOHN HAMILTON'S INFANTRY. 469
the person of James O'Hara, created in 1721 Baron
of Kilmaine.* In 1744, Captain O'Hara, of an Irish
Brigade in Prince Charies-Edward's service, was, with
Captain O'Brien, taken prisoner at Harwich by an
order from Lord Carteret. They had arrived there
with the intention of crossing to Holland, but were
carried back in custody to London. Brigadier-Gene-
ral O'Hara was distinguished in the American war of
1781, and was wounded in an engagement near
Deep River, where the Americans were commanded
by General Greene. He was, however, ultimately
obliged with Earl Comwallis to surrender at York-
town. In 1793, a General O'Hara was taken
prisoner in the attack on Toulon.f
CAPTAIN JOHN STANLEY.
This name is of record in Ireland from the earliest
introduction of the English Government. In 1385,
Sir John Stanley was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, as
he was four several times after. He it was who, on the
forfeiture of Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland,
obtained a grant in fee from the Crown, of the Isle of
Man with all its regalities and franchises, to hold by
homage and the service of two falcons, to be rendered
to the filing, his heirs and successors, on the days of
their coronation. He was . afterwards constituted
* Crossl/s Peerage, p. 260. t Gent. Mag. ad ann.
470 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
Constable of Windsor Castle, made a Knight of the
Garter by Henry V. and died in 1413, Lord Lieuten-
ant of Ireland for the last time. Sir William Stanley,
Sir John's brother, was Lord Deputy in 1401 ; and
in 1432, Sir Thomas, grandson of Sir John Stanley,
was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland for six
years. About the year 1530, Sir James Stanley, of
the same Derby stock as the before mentioned
Stanleys, was Marshal of Ireland. A Funeral Entry
in the Office of Arms records the death in 1636 of
Thomas Stanley of Finnor, County of Meath, son and
heir of Walter Stanley of same, and that he had mar-
ried Mary, daughter of Patrick Gernon of Gernons-
town. County of Louth, by whom he had daughters.
The above! Captain, though not of Walter's issue, ap-
pears to have been of the Finnor family, the son of
Edward, the third son of Stanley of Finnor, by
Anne, daughter of Stem of Great Eccleston in
Kent.* He had been SheriiF of the County of Dublin
in 1688, and a resident of Swords, of whose ancient
Borough he was constituted one of the Burgesses in
King James's Charter of 1689. In his attainder of
1691, he is described as of that place ; while another
Stanley (Thomas) is located on the Outlawries as of
Martinstown, County of Louth.
* Genealogical MSS. Collection in Trin. CoU. Dub. (F. 8, 27.)
JOHN HAMILTON'S INFANTRY. 471
CAPTAIN NICHOLAS HARROLD.
This family name, introduced into Ireland on the
Danish invasion, appears subsequently of frequent oc-
cuirence in the records of this country. In 1302,
John 'Harald' and Geofl&^y 'Harold' were of the
Magnates of Ireland whom King Edward invited to
assist him in the invasion of Scotland. In the seven-
teenth century the Harolds were established in the
Counties of Kildare, Wicklow, Dublin, and Limerick;
accordingly the Attainders of 1642 present the names
of Gerald Harold of Kildrought (Celbridge), County
of Kildare; Richard Harold of Kilhele, Do. ; Thomas
Harold of Coolnehamon, County of Wicklow ; and
William of Kilmaceogue, County of Dublin. John
Harold was one of five tried by court martial in St.
Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, on the 18th May, 1652.*
In 1676, Thomas Harold, ' a native of Ireland,' soli-
cited the interference of King Charles in his behalf ;
he having been confined in Brussels ten years *for re-
sisting the Pope's claim as to his allegiance, and for
his having been one of the subscribers to the Remon-
strance of 1661. f
Besides the above Captain, there stands on this
Army List William Harold, a Lieutenant in Major-
General Boiseleau's Infantry. In the Parliament of
Dublin, Alderman Thomas Harold was one of the
the Representatives of the City of Limerick ; he was
* Minutes of Courts Martial during the Commonwealth, MS.
t Catal.Soiithiralllfi| •^ ^.
472 KING James's irish akmy list.
consequently attainted with Walter Harold of Lime-
rick, merchant, and the above Nicholas Harrold,
styled of Kilmaceogue, County of Dublin, a lineal de-
scendant of William Harrold, who was attainted in
1642. A John Harrold, described as of the same
locality, Irish papist, then also forfeited estates there.
In 1787, Colonel Harrold, of the Limerick family,
was Chamberlain to the Elector of Bavaria.*
CAPTAIN EDMUND MURPHY.
The Murphys, or O'Murphys, were a Sept very
widely extended over Ireland, as even the few records
here noted will evince. This Officer was of Kilkenny,
in whose Cathedral are monuments to his family from
1640 to 1741. So early after the introduction of
surnames in Ireland as 1031, the death of Flaherty
O'Murroghoe (Murphy), Chief of Cinel-Breaghain, in
the County of Donegal, is recorded by the Masters,
as is that of O'Murroghoe, Chief Sage of Leinster, in
1127. The Attainders of 1642 name Michael
Murphy of Balruddery, and Laughlin Murphy of
Dunganstown ; George of St. Michan's Parish, Dub-
lin, with Donogh and Connor Murphy of Blarney,
County of Cork. In 1654, a Colonel of this name, at
the head of 800 Irishmen, distinguished himself in the
campaign in Spain. Besides the above Captain there
appear on this Army List, in the Earl of Tyrone's
* Ferraris Limerick, p. 850.
JOHN HAMILTON'S INFANTRY. 473
Infantry, Nicholas and Michael Murphy, Lieutenants ;
— ^in Lord Bellew's, Owen and Bryan Captains, Phe-
lim and Denis Lieutenants, and John Murphy an
Ensign ; — ^in Colonel Nicholas Browne's, William
Murphy was a Captain, Maurice Murphy his Lieute-
nant, and John Murphy Ensign. Those attainted in
1692 were the above Captain Edmund, styled of Kil-
kenny, with two others of the name there, seven in
Wexford, six in Louth, four in Cork, three in Down,
two in Armagh, and one in Waterford and Clare re-
spectively.
In the Brigades commissioned in the French
service, of that styled the * Regimept of Charlemont,'
commanded by Gordon O'Neill on its first formation,
the above Captain Edmund Murphy was constituted
Major, while a Cornelius Murphy was Major of the
Regiment of Clancarty.* At the Court of Claims in
1700, Maria de Margarita * de Murphjr ' claimed the
benefit of a judgment debt affecting the estates of
Donogh, Earl of Clancarty, but her petition was
dismist. The Archives of Bruges record a Darby
* Morphy,' Captain-Lieutenant in Lord Hunsdon's
Infantry as hereafter noticed ; while in St. Donat's
Cathedral of that City is a monument to the Reverend
and Venerable John Albert * de Morphy,' ' of the
Royal Sept of O'Morrough, which had given Kings to
Leinster,' who "had been imprisoned in London,
driven into exile, found an asylum at Bruges, where
* 0*Conor'8 Milit. Mem. p. 199. For acbieyements of this
name in the Brigades, see idem, p. 78.
474 KING JAMES'S IBISH ARMY LIST.
he was constituted ' Penitentiary ' of the Diocese, and
died 12th November, 1745."*
CAPTAIN JAMES GIBBONS.
No information of him has been ascertained, nor does
he appear on the Roll of Attainders ; those of 1642
have two of the name, and those of 1691 three.
LIEUTENANT ANTHONY COLEMAN.
TuE native Annalists of Ireland notice at a very
early age the Sept of O'Coleman, and sometimes of
Mac Colman, the latter as in the County of Louth,
where the name is still of respectability. In 1206,
say the Four Masters, died * Maolpeddar O'Coleman,
successor of Canice (Abbot of Kilkenny), the pillar of
piety and wisdom of the North of Ireland.' The Rolls
of the Irish rpcords present the name from the time of
Edward the Second. In 1642, were attainted John
Coleman of Artaine and Patrick Coleman of Kill,
County of Dublin, with Anne his wife. On the
minutes of courts martial held in St. Patrick's Cathe-
dral, Dublin, it is stated that an Ensign Coleman was
one of those tried there on the 9th of March, 1651.
The name does not appear at all on the Attainders of
1691, &c.
• Nichols's Top*, and Gen*. 1868, p. 484.
JOHN HAMILTON'S INFANTRY. 475
LIEUTENANTS ANDREW AND LAURENCE
DUFFE.
The O'Duffs were Chiefs of Hy Cruinthain, a district
extending round Diinamase in the Queen's County ;
and the name is of record on the Irish Rolls of
Chancery from the days of Edward the Third. On
the Attainders of 1642 appear Patrick Duffe of
Westpalstown, County of Dublin, with five other
Duffes in the same County, three in Kildare, and one
in Meath. At the Supreme Council of Kilkenny in
1647, Patrick Duff, there described as of Rospatrick,
but probably identical with the attainted Patrick of
Westpalstown, was of the Commons.* Besides these
Lieutenants, Duffe was a Lieutenant in Colonel
Roger Mac Elligott's Infantry. The Attainders of
1691 name only Thady ' Duff' of Piltown, County of
Meath ; Thadeus Duff of Athlone, merchant ;
Thadeus Duff, junior, of Dublin ; and Thomas Duff
of Kilkenny, merchant.
ENSIGN CHARLES SANDERS.
His connections are unknown.
• The compiler of these lUustrations sincerely regrets the
occurrence of assertions on prohability ; but the difficulty he has
experienced in obtaining authentic family information precludes
that certainty, which could be otherwise obtained, only from his
own manuscripts, at a labour impracticable gratuitously for so
many families.
476
KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.
FITZ-JAMES'S (the LORD GRAND PRIOR.)
CaptaUu.
The Colonel.
Edward Nugent,
Lieut. -Col.
Porter.
Major.
Walter • TyrrelL*
Hugh M*Mahon.
John Satton.
Christopher Sherlock.
John Wogan.
Alexander KnighUej.
John Panter.
William Moore.
Le Sienr Corridore.
Thorn. JuBtie.
Patrick Kendelan.
Geoige Corridons,
Granad.
Oliver Nngent.
Lieutenant Colonel Clon-
shinge.
Ignatina Usher.
Lieutenants.
James * Barnwell.'
. Catalier.
Garrett Plnnkett
> Christopher Bellew.
f Charles Degnent
Bartholomew White.
!
iJohn Heme.
Claudius Beauregard.
John Stephens.
Walter Grace.
Walter Usher.
Entignt.
Phill Mownson.
Daniel 0*DanieI.
• Moigan.
Matthew Wale.
Francis Borre.
Beaghan Kcndolan.
Bartholomew Read.
Edward Rignej.
Oliver Grace.
COLONEL HENRY FITZ-JAMES, THE LORD
GRAND PRIOR.
This gallant young officer was another son of King
James by his mistress Arabella Churchill, sister of the
great Duke of Marlborough ; he was the youngest of
five children of that connection ; was bom in August,
FITZ-JAMES'S INFANTRY. 477
1673; accompanied his father in his flight from Eng-
land, and after, in his expedition to Ireland ; where,
at the age of sixteen, he was appointed Colonel of this
Regiment, thenceforward known by his name. He
headed it at the battle of the Boyne, but retired with
his father immediately after to France. This his
Regiment, which was consigned to the command of
Nicholas Fitzgerald,* distinguished itself throughout
the first siege of Limerick, and especially along with
that of Major-General Boiseleau, the French General,
at the successful resistance of the assault of the 6th
of September, 1690, which led to the raising of the
siege by King William. The Grand Prior was in
i696 in France placed over the Toulon fleet designed
to invade England, at which time O'Callaghan conjec-
tures he was created Duke of Albemarle. In Decem-
ber, 1702, he was appointed Lieutenant-General of
the Marine, and in the same month died at Bagnols
in Languedoc, aged only between 29 and 30, married,
but without issue. Louis the Fourteenth placed the
Court of France in mourning on his decease.f On
the formation of the French Brigades, Fitz-James's
Regiment was equipped as Cavalry and styled *Le
Regiment de la Marine,' from the circumstance of the
Lord Grand Prior having been originally designed for
the British Navy, and his having entered the French
on his father's dethronement, and actually distin-
guished himself at sea under Tourville in the engage-
* O'Callagban's Irish Brigades, vol. 1, p. 209.
t Idem, p. 876.
478 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
ment at St. Vincent against the English Admiral Sir
Greorge Rooke in 1693.* Of this Brigaded force the
Lord Prior was Colonel, Nicholas Fitzgerald Lieuten-
ant-Colonel, and Edward O'Madden Major,f (the lat-
ter had been Lieutenant-Colonel of Lord Clanricarde's
Infantry in Ireland, as noted hereafter). It fought
with signal bravery at Fontenoy in 1745, where it
consisted of four squadrons, one of which, styled the
Scotch Royals or Squadron, and the picquets of those
of Dillon, Rothe, and Lally, were despatched from
France to Scotland and England, to sustain the claim
of Prince Charles-Edward. They only reached their
destination, however, to be made prisoners of war,
after the battle of Culloden, fought 2nd April, 1746.
The three first squadrons of Fitz-James's Regiment, as
it continued to be styled, and the picquets of Bulke-
ley's, Clare's and Berwick's, had been previously cap-
tured on the voyage in the month of October, 1745,
and March, 1746. J A meagre list of those of the
respective Irish Brigades killed and wounded at Fon-
tenoy may be seen in the Gmtleniaris Magazine
(vol. 15). In 1746, the 'Count de Fitz-James,' de-
scribed as Major-General-Commandant, was one of the
volunteers bound for Scotland in Prince Charles-
Edward's service, but taken at sea ; as was also M.
D'Arcy, his aide-de-camp, Major-General Ruth, * Briga-
dier-General de Tyrconnel,' and eighteen other officers,
♦ O'Callagban's Irish Brigades, vol. 1, p. 210.
t O'Conor s Military Memoirs, v. 1, p. 198.
J Idem, p. 400.
FITZ-JAMES'S INFANTRY. 479
six gunners, one corporal, one labourer, and five com-
panies of Fitz- James's Regiment, in all 199 men.
These were taken on board the French transport ship
the ' Bourbon,' by Commodore Knowles ; while at the
same time there were captured by him on board the
' Charity ' thirteen other oflScers and four companies of
Fitz-James's Regiment of Horse, in aU about 160 men.
MAJOR PORTER.
The name of Porter is of record on the Irish Rolls from
the time of Edward the Third. The Attainders of
1642 present of this name only Richard Porter of
Oldbridge, County of Meath. In 1686, Sir Charles
Porter was appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland; he
was afterwards removed for Sir Alexander Fitton,
but was restored at the close of 1690, on the Revo-
lution. In the Parliament of 1689, Robert Porter was
one of the Representatives of the County of Kildare,
as was John Porter of the City of Waterford, and
Colonel James Porter of the Borough of Fethard,
County of Wexford.
The above Major, whose Christian name does not
appear on this roll, was, it may be presumed, the
Colonel James, Member for Fethard in 1689, as he
was early promoted to the rank of second Lieutenant-
Colonel in this Regiment, Dodsley having been sub-
stituted in the Majority. He was in France at the
time of the battle of the Boyne, on the day previous to
480 KING James's irish army list.
which he wrote from St. Germains to Father Warner,
* confessor to the King in Dublin/ a letter* in which
he says, " the dreadful fleet of France has got into
the Channel. We may daily expect strange changes,
and with reason ; we may expect to see our Royal
Master in Whitehall before Michaelmas. We are
sending a fleet of thirty frigates for Ireland : after
such preparations, what may we not expect ?**
When that Royal Master had fled to France, this
Colonel Porter was made Vice-Camberlain in his
titular Court. f The Attainders of 1691 include his
name as of Feathard, with Patrick Porter of Kings-
town and William of Jongiunstown, County of Meath;
Robert Porter of Kildare, and Nicholas Porter
of Waterford, merchant, who was Mayor of that
city in 1689. His forfeitures consisted of premises
in that city, all which were purchased from the Trus-
tees by Alderman Lapp in 1703. Some links of
the descent of the Porters of Waterford are preserved
in a manuscript book of Obits in Trinity College,
(F. 3. 27), deriving them from Gloucestershire.
CAPTAIN JOHN SUTTON.
This family was established in Ireland at a very re-
mote period. In 1302, Gilbert de Sutton was one of
the Magnates of this country whom Edward the First
♦ Southwell MSS. Catal. p. 179. "^
t Clarke s James IL vol. 2, p. 411.
FITZ-JAMES'S INFANTRY. 481
invited to aid him in the Scottish war. They early-
settled in the County of Kildare, where a genealogi-
cal manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin (F. iii. 27),
traces links of their pedigree for five generations, in
the 16th and 17th centuries. In 1605, John Lye,
gentleman, servant to Queen Elizabeth, had a grant
from her Royal successor of the towns, lands, &c. of
Bathbride, Morristown-Biller, Relickstown, &c., par-
cel of the estate of David Sutton in the County of
Kildare, the patentee being bound to keep upon Rath-
bride one able horseman, archer, or ' hargabusher,' of
the English nation, sufficiently furnished for the de-
fence of Ireland. Oliver Sutton was previous to this
time seised of Richardstown in the same County.
His heiress, Elinor, married Gerald Sutton, who sur-
vived her, but died in 1616, leaving Gilbert Sutton
their heir, who died in 1631. Gerald Sutton was his
son and heir, then aged but eight years ; he was in
1642 attainted, with Laurence and Nicholas Sutton
of Tipper in the same County, who were a branch
of the stock. William Sutton died seised of Tip-
per, Barbyeston, &c. County of Kildare in 1592,
leaving John his son and heir, who succeeded to said
estates, which were forfeited in 1642 by the attainder
of his son William Sutton, junior. This William was
one of the Confederate Catholics at the Supreme Coun-
cil of Kilkenny in 1646, and he would seem to have
been father to the above Captain John, in whose
favour a saving was reserved in a patent of lands in
the County of Galway to William Clynch. He was,
II
4:82 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
in 1691, attainted by the description of John Sutton
of Haverston, County of Kildare, together with five
other Suttons in the County of Wexford, and one in
the City of Dublin. At the Court of Chichester
House, Bridget Sutton, in 1700, claimed and was
allowed her jointure off the Kildare estate of this
Captain Sutton, which was sold by the Commissioners
of the Forfeitures in 1703 to the Hollow Swords
Blades' Company.
CAPTAIN CHRISTOPHER SHERLOCK.
This family is of record in Ireland from the time of
the Tudors. They were located in the Barony of
Coshmore, County of Waterford, as also in the Coun-
ties of Tipperary, Limerick, Dublin, and Kildare.
In 1422, the King appointed Walter ' Sherloke' to be
Chief Sergeant of the County of Kildare, an office
which he held for several years after. In 1431, he
had an order on the Irish Exchequer for remune-
rating his great labours in the County of Kilkenny
and its marches. In 1499, James 'Sherloke' was
commissioned to hold an assize. In 1586, an Inqui-
sition post mortem was held of the estates of John
Sherlock of Ballyclerihan, in the County of Cross-
Tipperary, when it was found that, at the time of his
death, he was seised of a castle and sundry lands and
premises there. In 1616, Thomas Sherlock of 'the
Naas' was one of the County of Kildare gentry impa-
FITZ-JAMES'S INFANTRY. 483
nelled to hold a siimlar post mortem inquiry as to the
estates of Walter Wellesley of the Norragh, then
lately deceased. This Thomas was attainted in 1642,
as were Edward Sherlock of Blackhall in the same
County, clerk, and George Sherlock of Wicklow, mer-
chant. In the confirmatory patents of King Charles
the Second to the adventurers in Waterford were
savings of the rights of Paul, heir of Sir Thomas
Sherlock.
In 1684, 18th May, died Philip Sherlock of Little-
rath, son of Christopher of that place ; he was buried
on the 20th at Bowdingstown in the same County,
leaving issue by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Wil-
liam Eustace,* the above Christopher his eldest son,
Eustace, Robert, John, William, and Edward, his
younger sons, and Hester and Mary his two
daughters. The estate, having descended to Christo-
pher, was forfeited on his attainder, subject to the
charges which the will of his &ther created for the
younger children. The testator^s widow intermarried
with Nicholas Adams, while of her children by Sher-
lock, Robert and Mary died under age, and Edward
the youngest was long resident in Corfti.f He was a
claimant for his portion on the family estate, as were
his brothers John and William, and their rights were
allowed. Besides Captain Christopher, there are on
this List Thomas Sherlock of Blackhall, a Captain, and
Robert Sherlock an Ensign, in Sir Maurice Eustace's
* Funeral Entry, Berm. Tower,
t M8S. in lianh's library, Dublin.
* 1x2
484 KING JAM£S'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
Infantry, evidently near relatives of Captain Christo-
pher. Edward Sherlock of Blackhall, possibly the same
individual who was attainted in 1642, was one of the
Representatives of the Borough of Cloughmine in King
James's Parliament of 1689. He was consequently at-
tainted with said Thomas, John Sherlock of Lady's Castle,
Laurence and Eustace Sherlock of Littlerath, all in said
County of Kildare ; Robert Sherlock of Carlow (the En-
sign in Sir Maurice Eustace's), and James, Pierce, and
Balthazzar Sherlock of Ballykenny and Ballyleigh,
County of Waterford. In 1 6 94, Thomas Sherlock, a mer-
chant of Irfsh birth, theretofore trading in Dublin, but
then a merchant at Rouen in France, obtained, under
circumstances detailed in his petition, full pardon and
liberty to return to his native country.
CAPTAIN ALEXANDER KNIGHTLEY.
CAPTAIN JOHN PANTON.
Nothing worthy of note has been ascertained of
either of these officers or their families, in connexion
with this period.
CAPTAIN PATRICK KENDELAN.
The O'Caendelain were Tanists of Leogaire in Meath,
of which Donell O'Caendelain died lord in 1017, as
did Angu9 O'Caendelain in 1085. This officer was
FITZ-JAMES'S INFANTRY. 485
of Ballynakill, County of Meath, by which description
he was attainted with three others of his kindred
there, Edward, Vaughan, and John Kendelan.
CAPTAIN IGNATIUS USHER.
In Lord Slane's Regiment of Infantry, Walter Usher
was an Ensign, but nothing of note touching this
period has been discovered of either of these officers.
LIEUTENANT JOHN HERNE.
He appears to have been of the Galway Hemes.
LIEUTENANT JOHN STEPHENS.
Of this name at the period it can only be said that,
in 1690, Sir Richard Stephens was appointed a
Justice of the King's Bench in Ireland, while a
Thomas Stephens, described as of Ballyvaughan,
County of Limerick, was the only one of the name
then attainted.
486
KING JAMES S IKISH AKMT UST.
ENSIGN PHILL MOWNSON,
ENSIGN BARTHOLOMEW READ,
ENSIGN EDWARD RIGNEY.
No notice of any of these officers, worthy of insertion,
h&s been obtained.
REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.
COLONEL JUSTIN MACARTY'S, KOW LORD MOUNTCASHEL.
The Colonel
[Count Anthony Hamil-
ton, Lieut..Col.]
Major.
Garret Fitzgerald.
Philip Barry Oge.
LieMtenatUs.
Dominick Terry.
Francis Fitzgerald.
James Fitzgerald.
George
Edmund Sweeny.
John Sullivan.
Miles CarroU
Lewis Moore.
Thomas Hogan.
Robert Fitzgerald.
5 Walter Bryan.
I Donogh M*Carty.
Maurice Piers.
John Ryan.
John Mally.
Edward Fitzgerald.
Patrick LeTallin.
Thomas Power.
Ulick Browne.
Charles Fitzgerald.
Gianad.
Richard Condon.
Kennedy O'Bryan.
Thady O'Connor.
Redmond Condon.
Teigue M*Carty.
Arilliam White.
Patrick • Peiia.'
John Ryan.
Philip Connor.
COLONEL JUSTIN MACARTY.
The native Annals, especially those of Innisfallen,
abound in records of the patriotism and perseverance
LORD MOUNTCASHEL'S INFANTRY. 487
with which the noble Sept of the Macartys laboured
to resist the early invasion of the Danes, until they
were at length induced to tolerate their settling for
commercial purposes in that province, Desmond, of
which they were Kings. When Henry the Second
landed at Waterford, Mac Carty, King of Desmond,
delivered to him the keys of Cork and did homage.
This great family was popularly distinguished into
two branches, the Mac Carty More, of which was
Donald Mac Carty, created Earl of Glancare by Queen
Elizabeth ; and Mac Carty Reagh, ranked Princes of
Carbery. Besides being Earls of Glancare, the
Mac Cartys were subsequently at various times en-
nobled as Barons of Valentia, Barons and Viscounts
Muskerry, Earls of Clancarty, and in this reign Lords
Mountcashel. In 1314, Edward the Second directed
his especial letter missive to Dermot Mac Arthy,
' Ditci Hibemicorum de Dessemond^ for his aid in
the Scottish war. In Sir John Perrot's Parliament,
the Earl of Glancare sat as chief representative of
this Sept. In a few years after, the Desmond war
having wasted Munster, Florence Mac Carty and Der-
mot Mac-Donagh Mac Carty passed out of that Pro-
vince to Spain. Florence had been previously imprison-
ed, and during his confinement, in the enthusiasm of
national feeling, he wrote an ' Epistle on the Antiqui-
ties of the Irish Nation,' which is preserved in the
MSB. of Trinity College, Dublin, (D. 3. 16). In
1605, David Lord Barrie, Viscount Buttevant, had a
grant from King James of various castles, manors.
488 KixG James's irish army list.
customs, &c. ill the County of Cork, ' the estate of
Fineen Mac Oweu Mac Cartie, late of Iniskeen, slain
in rebellion.' The Attainders of 1642 present the
names of Dermot Mc Carthy, and Donell Mac Teigue
Mc Carthy, both of Ballyea, County of Cork ; with
the large proportion of one hundred and ten several
Inquisitions confiscating the estates of other proprie-
tors of the name in that County.
At the Supreme Council held in Kilkenny in 1646,
Donogh Mc Carty, Viscount Muskerry, was of its
Temporal Peers ; while Charles Mc Carty Reagh,
Dermot Mc Carty of Kanturk, and Thady Mc Carty
of Killfallaway were of the Commons. The Viscount
was consequently especially excepted from pardon for
life and estate in Cromwell's Ordinance of 1652. On
the Irish Establishment of 1687-8, this Colonel Justin
Macarty was placed as a Major-General of the Army
for the annual pay of £680, with an addition of
£500 on the Pension List ; while, on the latter fund,
Daniel Mc Carty Reagh was placed for £100 'per an-
num. This name appears in commission in eight
other Regiments of the present muster. In 1689, a
Captain Mac Cartie was killed, according to Walker,
or taken prisoner, as Mac Eenzie has it, in attempting
to scale the walls of Derry ; while in September of the
following year another Captain Mac Carty was taken
prisoner at the siege of Cork by Colonel Churchill,
afterwards Duke of Marlborough.*
This Colonel Justin Macarty, whom O'Kelly, in
* Story's Impartial History, pt. 1, p. 131.
LORD MOUNTCASHEL's INFANTRY. 489
his ^ Excidium MacaricB^ styles First Lieutenant-
General of the Irish Army, was, he says, " a man of
parts and courage, wanting no quality fit for a com-
plete captain, if he were not somewhat short-sighted."*
As the best qualified officer for inspecting arms, ord-
nance, and engineering tools, he was appointed Mus-
ter-Master General of Artillery in Ireland, and con-
stituted Lord Lieutenant of the County of Cork ;
where, previously to King James's coming over, he
took Castle-Martyr and Bandon from the possession of
the Protestant party, and was considered to have
suppressed their movements in two of the other pro-
vinces.! ^^ King James's landing at Kinsale, he
sought his information as to the state of the country
more especially " from Justin Macarty and from Sir
Thomas Nugent, (afterwards created Lord Riverston)
the Lord Chief Justice. He then applied himself to
the affairs of the Army, and gave orders to this Jus-
tin Macarty to form seven Regiments of Foot of
the forces raised in those quarters, as also to arm the
Regiment of Dragoons of Sir James Cotter (Sir Fran-
cis Carroll's on this List).J Early in May, 1689, he
was created Lord Viscount Mountcashel and Baron
of Castleinchy, and was introduced with that title on
the second day of the meeting of the Parliament of
Dublin, to the House of Peers; immediately after which
he was constituted Commander of the forces designed
* O'Callaghan's Excidium Macaris, p. 36.
t Clarke's James 11. vol. 2, p. 327. t Idem.
490 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
to reduce Eiiniskillen.* Amongst tlie Peers on tliat
occasion sat also Donogh Mac Carty (although a
minor) by Royal dispensation; while in the Commons
another Justin Macarty was one of the Repi'esenta-
tives of the County of Cork ; Charles and Daniel
Mac Carty Reagh sat for the Borough of Bandon,
Lieutenant-Colonel Owen Mac Carty and Daniel
Fynneen Mac Carty for that of Cloughnakilty, and
Florence Mac Carty was one of the Representatives of
the Borough of Ennis. Lord Mountcashel proceeded
under his aforesaid commission into Ulster, attended
by three whole Regiments of Infantry, two of Dragoons,
and some Horse ; being all the troops the King could
draw together at that time. His Loixiship's efforts
in that Province were, however, from the want of am-
munition and the rawness of his soldiers, ineffective.
In an engagement near Enniskillen, he was severely
wounded, and, being carried into that town a prisoner,
'* he there lay long under cure ; but, before he was ful-
ly recovered of his wounds, he made his escape after a
strange and wonderfid manner, to the universal joy of
all the Irish.^t " The town of Enniskillen," writes
Story (Impaiiial History, part 1, p. 51) "stands upon
a lough, and the water came to the door of the house
where he was confined, or very near it. He found
means to cornipt a servant, and to get two small boats
called ' cots ' to carry him and his best moveables off
by night." This act having been represented as a
breach of parol. Lord Mountcashel, previous to re-
♦ O'Callagban 8 Brigades, vol. 1, p. 26. t Idem, p. 36.
LORD MOUNTCASHEL'S INFANTRY. 491
suming military duties in France, the new scene of
his achievements, thought it necessary to submit him-
self to be tried before a Court of Honour in that
country, when he was fully aquitted by this tribunal.
When the Duke of Schomberg landed at Bangor in
the County of Down, in August, 1689, his first move-
ment was against Carrickfergus ; to invest which he
sent five Kegiments of Foot and some Horse, follow-
ing on the next day himself with the remainder of
the Army. The town was governed by Colonel Charles
Macarty More, whose garrison consisted of his own
Kegiment and nine companies of Colonel Cormuck
O'Neill's. He defended the place for ten days against
Scomberg's operations by land and sea ; nor was it
until reduced to the last extremity, having but one
barrel of powder left, and without any hope of relief,
that he quitted the town, upon very honourable terms.
" The garrison," says Story, in the first part of his
Impartial History (p. 10), " were lusty strong fellows,
but ill-clad, and, to give them their due, they did not
behave ill in that siege."
Lord Mountcashel was attainted in 1691, and
again in 1696, on which occasion seventy-eight other
Inquisitions of Outlawries were held on the McCartys,
on whose confiscations various claims were preferred
at Chichester House.
The reader must be here reminded that, when
James the Second was induced to attempt a landing
in Ireland, Louis the Fourteenth agreed to send over
thither for his service six thousand of his veterans,
under the command of De Lausun, in exchange for as
492 KIXG JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
many young soldiers from Ireland. Lord Mount-
cashel was appointed to head the latter, a movement
which, Colonel O'Kelly writes, " was desired hy Tyrcon-
nel, while Mountoashel himself, who could not endure
Tyrconnel's haughty movement, was not displeased to
serve France under the great Louis.*^ On the arrival
of the Irish forces in that country, they were received
with the most flattering and generous treatment by
the King. MountcasheFs Regiment, having suffered
almost annihilation in the engagement near Ennis-
killen, was strengthened with fresh recmits before it
could be brought out. The second Regiment sent
out, Clare's, was commanded by the Honoumble
Daniel O'Brian, son of Lord Clare ; the thiixi, Dillon's,
was under the Honourable Arthur Dillon, second son
of the Lord Viscount of that name. There were two
other Begiments sentovorwith these, viz. Colonel Rich-
ard Butler s and Colonel Robert Fielding's, but they do
not appear upon this 'List ;' and were at once incorpo-
rated in the three first. Soon after Mountcashel's
arrival in Fmnce (1690-91), he received a commission
from Louis, entitling him to command all the Irish
troops taken into the French service, viz., his own,
O'Brien's, and Dillon's ; and in a few days after was
empowered to act as a Lieutenant-General of France,
as he already was of England and Ircland.f In order
at once to engage his military services, he was ordered
to Savoy, where the French corps (Tarmee was then
too feeble for active operations. After a mareh of
• Excid. Mac. p. 46. t O'Callaghan s Brigades, vol. 1, p. 69.
LORD MOUNTCASHEL'S INFANTRY. 493
five hundred miles under a burning sun, to which the
men were unaccustomed, it joined the French army
near the capital of Savoy, towards the latter end of
July. Lieutenant-General the Marquis of St. Ruth,
(destined afterwards to fall at Aughrim) on the ar-
rival of the Irish, recognised their value, and fearlessly
approached Chantilly. Calculating on their courage
and agility as mountaineers, he promptly ordered
their forces to join him, with the object of driving the
Piedmontese beyond the high Alps that separate
Savoy from Piedmont. Nor did Mountcashel disap-
point his expectations ; at the head of his Regiment
he gained the defiles, burst through the abattis, carried
the entrenchments, and forced the Piedmontese to fly
to the summits of the mountains. M. de Salles, their
commander, was taken prisoner, the next in command
was killed, and several others were, in the pursuit,
killed or taken. Mountcashel received wounds on
this occasion, which, though he was unwilling they
should withdraw him from service, yet ultimately
preyed upon him to death. During the campaign of
1691, St. Ruth's corps was embodied in the French
armies of Piedmont and Catalonia, and shared with
them the honor of the capture of Montmelian, the
strongest fortress in the south of Europe ; and of Urgel
in Catalonia, defended by a large garrison, the elite
of the Spanish army. Clare s mounted the trenches
at Montmelian, and Mountcashers and Dillon's at
Urgel.* In 1692, Mountcashel's Brigade was en-
♦ O'Conor'8 Milit. Mem. p. 100, &c.
494 KIXG JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
gaged in hrilliant services with Catiiiat on the Pied-
montese frontier, at Guillestre, and Embrun. Nine
battalions of his Brigarle were engaged in this service,
with three of Clare's, two of the King's and Queen's
Dismounted Dragoons, and two of the Queen's In-
fantry.* In 1694, when the French army in
Germany was commanded by Marshal Boufflers,
Mountcashel served as a Lieut<?nant-General in the
corps of tlie Grand Army, having under him his own
Kegiment, consisting of thi-ee Battalions, the Dublin,
the Charlcmont, and the Marines. Their nine Bat-
talions, in all about 6,000 men, effected the reduction
of Beringheim on the Necker, the only achievement
of the French in Germany duiing this year.f In
the campaign on the Rhine, Mountcashel acted as
Lieutenant-General under Marshal Lorges, but the
effects of his wounds obliged him to seek benefit from
the waters of Barege, where he died on the 21st of
July, 1694. He had married the Lady Arabella
Wentworth, second daughter of Thomas, the ill-fated
Earl of Strafford, by whom he left no issue. " His
death made room for the advancement of Colonel
Andrew Lee, an officer of distinguished reputation,
who afterwards obtained the rank of Lieutenant-
General, and by whose name MountcasheFs Regiment
was thenceforward known.J
In 1747, Captain Charles Mac Cartie of Buckley's
Regiment was killed at Lauffield, as was Flory Mac
♦ O'Conors MiUt. Mem. p. 215-16. t Idem, p. 224.
} Idem, p. 228-9.
LORD MOUNTCASHEL'S INFANTRY. 495
Carty of Clare's ; and Lieutenant Florence Mac
Carty of Berwick's was wounded on the same occasion.
In 1770, died in England Charles Mac Carty More,
a Captain in the First Foot Guards, who claimed de-
scent from Dermot Mac Carthy, King of Cork in the
time Henry the Second.*
[LIEUTENANT-COLONEL COUNT ANTHONY
HAMILTON.]
This son of Sir George Hamilton and brother of
Count George Hamilton, both before alluded to, was
a native of Ireland, but passed out of it to France
during the visitation of Cromwell. On the Restora-
tion he also returned ; and, after the accession of
James the Second was created a Privy Councillor in
Ireland, and made Governor of Limerick, with a pen-
sion of £200 per annum. When the Revolution
broke out in England he retired to France with
James the Second, whom he afterwards accompanied
to Ireland, and was by him appointed Colonel of a
Regiment of Infantry, and finally Major-General of
the forces under Lord Mountcashel designed to re-
duce EnniskiUen ; in the progress of which expedi-
tion he was wounded at Belturbetf He had greatly
incensed King William by undertaking, as it was
alleged, to persuade Tyrconnel to yield up Ireland to
^ Exshaw's Mag. ad ann,
t O'Callaghan's Brigades, p. 32, &c.
490 KING James's misn army list.
him ; adding thiit, when ho liad obtained all the con-
fidence with which the Whigs would entrust him, he
posted over to Ireland, and did all in his i)ower, by
pen, intei-est, or sword, in the cause of King James.
He was taken prisoner at the Boyne, when a sarcasm
little worthy of majesty is said to have been applied
to him by King William. Leland, following Dr.
Story, says this rebuke was uttered against General
Bichard Hamilton, who was also taken prisoner here ;
but the ivproach (if it ever were s{x)ken) could not
apply to the latter. By the intei-est of the Queen, on
the representations of the Duke of Devonshire and
" the fair Grammont," his own sister. Count Anthony
was released from captivity, and died at St. Gkrmains
in 1720, aged 74.* He was the well-known author
of the ' Memoirs of Grammont,' an attractive record
of scandalous reminiscences. It is only to be
observed that on the present Army List the Lieute-
nant-Colonelcy is not filled; but it was afterwards
filled by this officer.
CAPTAIN JOHN HOGAN.
Ortelk'SS map locates the 'O'Hogains' as an ancient
Sept in Tipjxirary, in the vicinity of Nenagh. Of
this family the Annals of the Diocese of Killaloe
record Matthew O'llogain its Bishop in 1267,
♦ O'Callaghan s Brigades, p. 284.
LORD MOUNTCASHEL'S INFANTRY. 497
Maurice O'Hogain in 1281, Thomas O'Hogain in
1343, and Kichard Hogan in 1525 ; this last was
afterwards translated to the See of Clonmacnoise, a
short time previous to its union with Meath. The
above officer was of Terraleague, County of Cork ;
while there are also on this Army List, besides him
and Thomas Hogan a Lieutenant in this Regiment,
Murtough and Hugh Hogan, Comets in Lord Clare's
Dragoons ; the latter was of Carnan, County of
Clare ; and in Colonel Dudley Bagnall's Infantry,
Daniel Hogan was a Captain, and William Hogan an
Ensign. Of these, John and Hugh only appear on
the Roll of Attainders in 1691. Story relates * that
"Grace and Hogan, two Rapparee Captains, with
eighty men surprised a castle called Camgart, within
six miles of Birr."
CAPTAIN RICHARD CONDON.
The Condons were anciently settled in the County of
Cork; but their chief territory was, on the plantation
of Munster, granted to Arthur Hyde, as forfeited by
Patrick Condon, an adherent of the Earl of Des-
mond. In the subsequent Attainders of 1642 no
less than twenty-one Inquisitions were held on this
name. Besides the above Captain Richard, and Red-
mond Condon an Ensign in this Regiment, Edmund
Condon was a Lieutenant in Colonel John Barrett's
* Stoiy's Impartial Hist. pt. 2, p. 8.
KK
498 KIXG JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
Infantry. The Attainders of 1691 have the names
of John Condon of Carricknavoura, David of Bally-
macpatrick and John his son, Garrett of Killecar and
Redmond of Ballywilliam, all in the County of Cork.
Captain Richaixl appears to have fallen in battle.
His widow Julianne was an unsuccessful claimant at
Chichester Ifouse for a life estat<3 in his Cork lands.
LIEUTENANT DOMINICK TERRY.
This name is of record in Ireland from the time of
the Tudors. In 1536, Dominick Terry consented to
be appointed Bishop of Cork and Ross, by mandate of
Henry VIII. and held the See in opi)osition to the
Pope's nominee; while in 1616, William 'Thyrry/
on the latter authority, became titular Bishop thereof.
The Attainders of 1642 have only the names of Ed-
mund Tyrry of Clonturk, and William Tyrry Fitz-
Dominick of Ballymaci)eriy, County of Cork. Those
of 1691 include William and Robert Terry of
Ballingcurry, George and John of Rathnagarde,
Francis of Galway, and James, Patrick and Stephen
Thyrry of Limerick.
LIEUTENANT MAURICE PIERS.
Tms family has been noticed ante^ p. 309 and its settle-
ment at Tristernagh in the County of Westmeath,
LORD MOUNTCASHEL'S INFANTRY. 499
Captain William Piers of that place was an Officer
under Queen Elizabeth in her wars of Ireland, and
Holinshed mentions that he was the person who
"contrived of destroying the great rebel O'Neill."*
His great grandson, Sir Henry Piers of Tristernagh,
drew a brief memoir of his native County, which has
been published in VaUancejfs Collectanea Hibernica.
In the Attainders of 1642, John Piers, described as of
Wicklow, is the only person of this name, while those
outlawed in 1691 were John and Turlogh Piers of
Calwonmaine, County of Clare. In this Regiment
Patrick Piers was Maurice's Ensign, and in Sir Neill
O'Neiirs Dragoons, Christopher Piers was a Cornet.
LIEUTENANT JOHN MALLT.
The most influential branch of this family, O'Mally or
O'Maley, has been long established in the County of
Mayo, where, in the reign of Elizabeth, Grace,
daughter of Owen O'Maley, called by the natives
Grana Uile, made her name so widely known, that in
1576 the Lord Deputy Sidney wrote of her to the
Council in England, as one ' powerful in gallies and
seamen.' The renown of her Sept in maritime
affiiirs and naval exploits is indicated in their heral-
dic motto, ' Terra marique potens.^ Her visit to the
Court of Elizabeth and her carrying off the infant son
of the Lord of Howth from his father's residence have
♦ Ware's Writers, p. 102.
kk2
500 KIXG JAM£S*S IRISH ARMY LIST.
been commemorated in prose and poetry. Her
nephew, Edmund O'Malley, born in 1579, adhered to
the cause of Charles the First, and died at Breda in
exile, leaving a son who was present when very young
at the battle of Worc<3ster, and accompanied his father
to Breda ; on the Restoration he recovered a portion
of his ancient inherifcince. He (continues Sir Ber-
nard Burke) attended James the Second through all
his Irish campaigns, and died with him in exile at St.
Germains in 1692. He married at the Court of
Spain the daughter of Sir Christopher Garvey, a maid
of honor to the Queen, by whom he had a son Teigue
or Thady O'Malley, who held a commission as Captain
of Irish Dragoons during this campaign.*
This family was so formidable in the estimation of
the Lord President of Munster during the war in
that Province, that in 1601 when "intelligence
having reached him, and letters being intercepted,
whereby it probably appeared that the O'Mayleys
and OTlahertys had a purpose with six hundred men
to invade Kerry,. •..principally to disturb his Govern-
ment, he despatched a strong body of men to do good
service on the rebels at their passage over the Shan-
non, which, of necessity, they must hazard before they
could come into Munster ;''f a service which was
effectively rendered. After the defeat of the
Spaniards at Kinsale, when Sir Charles Wilmot was
despatched to watch over the inhabitants of Kerry,
* Burke's Landed Gentry, p. 964.
f Pacata Hibernia, pp. 222-3.
LORD MOUNTCASHEL's INFANTRY 501
Owen O'Mayley was one of the native chiefs who, at
the head of " 500 foot and a few horse, vainly sought
at Lixnaw to stay his passage."* In Lord Galway's
Regiment of Infantry, a Daniel Mally, described in
his Attainder as of Tynehugh, County of Donegal,
was an Ensign. With him were attainted in 1690
Nicholas Mally of Dublin, Thady of Drogheda, mer-
chant ; Neil O'Malley also of Tynehugh, and Patrick,
Owen, and Darby O'Malley of Owles, County of
Mayo. In the latter part of the eighteenth century,
Patrick O^Malley, of the Mayo Sept, was killed in the
Austrian service.
REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.
DONOGH, EARL OF CLANCARTY.
CaptaMW. LimUenanU, Ensigns,
The Colonel.
John SheltoD,
Lient.-Go].
PhOip Bicautt,
Major.
Alezinder Magoire.
Walter Bntler. Gerald Fitzgerald.
Lord Upper Oflsorj.
Garret ' TirrelL' Edmund Porcell. Garret Dease.
Edmimd Fitsgerald. ............
Donogh M*Gartj.
Andrew Dorrington. >
Comeline Mnrphj. {
* PacaU Hibemia, p. 533.
O02 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
COLONEL THE EARL OF CLANCARTT.
DoNOGH Mac Carty, the grandfather of this noble-
man, was Viscount Miiskerry and first Earl of Clon-
carty. He was General of the Irish forces of Mun*
ster for Charles the First and Charles the Second
against the Parliamentarian Revolutionists. When
resistance was no longer available at home, he brought
oif a large body of his countrymen to the Continent ;
and, surviving the Restoration, died in London in
August, 1665. He had by his wife, the Lady Butler,
eldest sister of James the first Duke of Ormond,
Charles, Callaghan, and Justin Mac Carty ; the eldest
fell in battle about two months previous to his Other's
decease, in the memorable sea-fight at South-hold Bay,
where James, then Duke of York, at the head of ninety,
eight ships of the line and four fire-ships, gained the
most glorious victory that had ever been obtained by
the English marine, over the naval power of Holland.
This son of Earl Donogh was intended in Westminster
Abbey, and, as he left no issue, the titles and estates
devolved upon his next brother Callaghan, who had
entered upon an ecclesiastical life in France with the
intention of becoming a Priest ; but, on the extinc-
tion of his elder brother's line, he became a Protestant,
married Elizabeth, daughter of the sixteenth Earl of
Kildare, and dying in November, 1676, left issue by her
one son, the above Colonel, born about the year 1670,
He was educated a Protestant by the Archbishop of
Canterbury, and bred up at Oxford, " where young
EARL OF CLANCARTY^S INFANTRY. 503
gentlemen in those days did not a leam a compla-
cency for popery, as they have since Sacheverel and
his fellows have been encouraged there.''* His uncle
Justin McCarty, without the knowledge of his
mother, married him at sixteen years old to Mary,
daughter of the Eari of Sunderland, who was then a
Court favourite, and immediately sent him to Ireland.
Smith, in his History of Cork, (vol. 1, p. 175, n.)
details some curious particulars respecting this noble-
man's marriage. He and his uncle warmly espoused
the cause of King James. Early in March, 1689, the
townspeople of Bandon fell upon its small Jacobite
garrison under Captain Donell O'Neill, seized their
arms, clothes, &c., and shut the gates against this
Earl Donogh, who was advancing with a reinforce-
ment of six companies to relieve the place.f His
uncle, however, Lieutenant-General Justin, after
taking precautions against any hostile rising in the
City of Cork and its vicinity, compelled the William-
ites of Bandon to seek pardon, open their gates, pay
£1000 fine, and level their waUs, which have never
since been rebuilt ; this achievement put an end to any
opposition to James in Munster. On that monarch's
subsequently landing at Kinsale, the Earl of Clancarty
with Tyrconnel received him ; the former entertain-
ing His Majesty, who " made him a Lord of the Bed-
chamber, appointed him Clerk of the Crown and
Peace for the Province by Letters Patent, and
* Memoirs of Ireland (printed 1716), p. 56. f Idem, p. 23.
504 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
created his Infantry Regiment a Royal Regiment of
Guards.''*
In the Parliament of Dublin, May, 1689, this Earl,
though under age, sat as a Peer by royal dispensation.
In 1690, being in the City of Cork when it was be-
sieged by the Earl, afterwards Duke, of Marlborough,
he was taken prisoner and sent off to the Tower of
London, where he was held until the autumn of 1694,
when he succeeded in making his escape to France,
and there he commanded a troop of King James's
Guards until the peace of Ryswick in 1697. In the
following year he ventured to visit England and his
wife, but was instantly arrested, and was only par-
doned on condition of abjuring the kingdom ; where-
upon he retired to Hamburgh, and, purchasing an
island on the Elbe near Altona, made it his residence
till his deatLf He was attainted in 1691 and 1696,
and his forfeitures gave an immense tract of country
to the Crown. A letter of Bartholomew Van Homrigh,
dated 11th December, 1697, in the Southwell MSS.
Collections, says, " the grant of the late Earl of Glan-
carty's estates to Lord Woodstock is this night past
the Great Seal of Ireland, so that all the said estate
is now by law in my Lord Woodstock and his heirs
for ever. "J The extent of the old Irish assessments
which his ancestors levied may be judged firom a
previous patent of King James (1608), granting to
♦ Memoirs of Ireland, p. 24.
t O'Callaghans Brigades, v. 1, p. 140.
J Thorpe's Catul. Southwell MSS. p. 26.
EARL OF CLANCARTY'S INFANTRY. 505
Sir Henry Power, Knight, Privy Councillor, all and
singular the seigniories, chief rents, silver rents,
customs of beeves, swine, butter, oats, beer, bran,
honey, and all other services which belonged to Donald,
late Earl of Clancartie, and were forfeited to the
Crown in Kerry and Desmond counties.
At the Court of Chichester House, the Countess of
Clancarty claimed off all the estate of this nobleman
* a competent maintenance,' and preferred other
charges attaching to the same, but with no success.
Various other claims were advanced as attaching to this
immense territory, and some few were allowed. The
chief purchasers of these estates from the Commission-
ers of the Forfeitures were Alderman James French,
Sir Richard Pyne, Knight, Lord Chief Justice of the
Common Pleas ; seventeen other private individuals,
and, yet more, the Hollow Swords' Blades Company.
In June, 1704, this Earl's Countess died at the
place of his exile, leaving issue by him two sons,
Robert and Justin. His attainder was reversed and
his honors restored in 1721, but he never returned,
and died at his island retreat in October, 1734,. aged
64. His son and heir Robert resided many years at
Boulogne-sur-mer, where he lived an Irish hospitable
life (see Walker's Hibernian Magazine for 1796,
p. 12, &c.), and died in 1770, aged 84, he also leaving
two sons. The Brigade Regiment known as Clan-
carty's was commanded by Roger Mc Ellicott (who
had been Governor of Cork when it was taken by the
Earl of Marlborough) ; Edward Scott was its Lieu-
506 KING James's irisu army list.
tenant-Colonel and John Murphy its Major. The
late Compte de Mac Carthy Keagh collected a library,
second in its extent only to that of the King of
Fnmce ; no other possesse<l so large a number of
printed and manuscript books on vellum. On his
death, liowever, this magnificent collection, like the
estates of the family a century previous, was scattered
amongst strangers.*
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL SH ELTON.
Nothing known of him or his connexions.
CAPTAIN LORD UPPER OSSORY.
The Mac Gilla Phadniig (Fitz-Patrick) was in the
early period of Irish history Ruler of Ossory, a territory
extending over the whole country between the rivers
Nore and Suir ; and the native annals are full of their
lineage, charitable foundations, and achievements, the
castles they enacted, and the abbeys they founded and
endowed. In 1314, Edward the Second directed his
official letter missive to Donogh Mac GiDe-Patrick,
as Chief of his Sept, for service and aid in the war to
Scotland. In 1541, Brian Mac Gilla Phadrig was
created Baron of Upper Ossory. His son, the second
Baron, was the companion and favourite of Edward the
♦ O'Callaghau's Green Book, p. 281.
EARL OF CLANCARTY's INFANTRY. 507
Sixth. Four letters of his to that young king, re-
lating interesting circumstances connected with the
war in France and Flanders, are preserved in the
British Museum, as are two others from him to the
Earl of Leicester, dated in 1578 and 1579 from
Dublin Castle, where, having incurred Queen Eliza-
beth's displeasure, he was confined a state prisoner.
In the last letter he sought to obtain the EarFs inter-
position with the Queen, accompanying his petition
with a present of * a very fair hawk of a tried agree.'
When Sir John Perrot convened the Conciliation
Parliament of 1585, " thither went Mc Gill Phadruig
of Ossory, namely Fingin, the son of Bryan, son of
Fingin."* At the Supreme Council of Kilkenny
Bryan Fitz-Patrick, Baron of Upper Ossory, was of
the Temporal Peers ; while Florence Fitz-Patrick of
Lisdunveamey was of the Commons. Cromwell's
Ordinance of 1652 excepted the above Florence Fitz-
Patrick and Colonel John his son fr*om pardon for life
and estate. As the honors of this family are in
abeyance, and the descent of its lines obscure, it may
be here mentioned that in 1674, 28th January, was
buried in the old graveyard of the Catholic aristocracy
at St. James's, Dublin, Dr. Thady Fitz-Patrick, son
to Teigue Oge Fitzpatrick of Akipe, son to Dermot of
Ballyrellin, son to Teigue Oge Mac Teigue of Munni-
drohid. This Dr. Thady married Julian, daughter of
Pierce Martin of Galway, merchant, son of Walter
Martin ; and had issue by her divers children, of
* Anoals of the Four Masters, ad ann.
508 KING James's irish army list.
whom * survive* three sons, Patrick, John, and James,
and two daughters. Christian and Anne, as is testified
in a Funeral Entry in Bermingham Tower by Julian
Martin, the widow of Dr.Thady. The aboveCaptain
was Bryan Fitzpatrick, the seventh Baron of Upper
Ossory, whose exploits at Mons are ftdly detailed in
Harris's Life of William the Third.* He had a pension
of £100 per annum from Charles the Second, which
was on the 1st of January, 1687, continued to him by
King James. He sat in the Parliament of Dublin,
was attainted in 1691, and died in 1696. He had
been married three times, but left no issue by any of
of his wives. In the Act " to hinder the reversal of
several Outlawries and Attainders," passed in the sixth
year of William the Third, it was provided that the
same should not extend to confirm the outlawries of
the late Earl of Upper Ossory, but the same might be
capable of being reversed in such manner as if that
Act had never been made. On his decease his nephew
assumed the title, but it was denied to him at law,
and this ancient Barony has been considered thence
extinct. At Chichester House, the Lady Dorothy
his third wife, claimed, as Baroness Dowager of Upper
Ossory, a long term for years in the Queen's County
estates forfeited by her lord's attainder. Of the name
there appear also on this *Army List,' John Fitzpatrick
a Captain and Darby Fitzpatrick a Lieutenant in
Colonel Edward Butler's Regiment of Infantry ; the
former afterwards became a Major, and was taken
* See its ludex Titles * Ossory' and ' Mons/
EARL OF CLANCARTY's INFANTRY. 509
prisoner in the service. He was described in his
attainder as * of Kilkenny/ the latter of Clooneen,
Queen's County. A Thady Fitzpatrick, most pro-
bably a relative of the above Dr. Thady, was in 1689
Deputy Lieutenant of the Queen's County, and one of
the Representatives for Maryborough in the Parlia-
ment of Dublin. He too was attainted in 1691, but
afterwards obtained a pardon under the Great Seal.
Besides those before mentioned, there were also at-
tainted in 1691 Terence Fitzpatrick of Kilbredelegg,
Bryan of Moneydriluch and Killdeley, Redmond of
Kilmanbought, Charles of Bamyballeragh, and Flo-
rence of Clonaghill, all in their native County, (the
Queen's); while Dermott Fitzpatrick was a forfeiting
proprietor in the County of Clare. At the siege of
Derry, a Lieutenant Fitzpatrick was killed " in the
orchard on the other side of the walls."* On the first
of May, 1691, "Major Wood, having notice that the
rapparees were in great force about Brittas in the
Queen's County, went out with 300 of my Lord
George Hamilton's and Colonel Lloyd's Foot and fifty
of Colonel Byerly's Horse, with which he first killed
nigh seventy Rapparees, and, leaving part of his men
to secure passes, he went three miles further beyond a
place called the Togher of Malahone, having with him
110 Foot, and 30 Horse ; but, instead of the rappa-
rees whom only he expected, he espied two bodies of
the Irish army said to be near eight hundred in num-
ber. These he encountered, and afl;er several charges
♦ Walker's Siege of Deny, p. 61.
510 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
at different places put them to the rout, killing one
hundred and fifty on the place, amongst whom was
one Captain Sheales ; and he took Major John Fitz-
patrick (before alluded to) prisoner, who commanded
the party, and seventeen officers more, with six ser-
geants, sixteen corporals, two drummers, and also
eighty privates.*^ In 1693, at the battle of Landon,
a Colonel Fitzpatrick was woundedf ; and in 1696,
Brigadier-General Edward Fitzpatrick was drowned in
the Holyhead packet with several other officers. The
vessel was cast away by a violent storm near Sutton,
on the Dublin coast. He was the elder brother of
Richard first Lord Gowran, the son of which latter
nobleman was afterwards created Earl of Upper
Ossory.J
In 1732, James Fitzpatrick was killed at the
battle of Oran, in the Spanish service. He had
preferred a claim to the Barony of Upper Ossory
before the House of Lords in the previous year, but
he was considered to have failed in his evidence, and
the issue, which he left, did not prosecute the claim.
ENSIGN GARRET DEASE.
He was of the House of Turbotstown, County of
Westmeath, as was also Richard Dease, and there the
* Story's Impartial History, pt. 2, p. 73.
t Rawdon Papers, p. 379.
X Lodge's Peerage, edited by Archdall, vol. 2, p. 846.
EARL OF CLANCARTY 8 INFANTRY.
511
family still exists. They were both attainted in
1691, as were Thomas Fitz-Laurence Dease of
Morterstown, and Richard amd Edward Dease of
Glanidan, in the same County.
REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.
RICHARD, EARL OF CLANRICARDE.
Ccgttamt.
The Colonel.
LtaOmanit,
Paul Daly.
Eiuifftu.
Edward Maddeo.)
Lord DiUon. )-
Lieut Cols. }
Richard de Bni^.
David Dowd.
Edmund Darcy.
( Andrew Ljnch.
{ Michael Madden.
""iiiilr'"
Charles Dalj.
John Bonrke.
Teigue 0*Kelly.
• Luk* Talbot.
Bryan Kelly.
WiUiam Kelly.
Sir UUck Bourke.
Gerald Farrell.
Patrick Bermingham.
James Talhot
Marcus French.
John French.
Edward Boarke.
Hemy Crofton.
Hugh Daly.
Thadj Daly.
Michael Madden.
William Kelly.
John Bourke.
UHck « Bourk.'
John Bermingham.
William Benningham.
John Talhot.
John Bonrk.
Augustin Bodkin.
Bryan 'Bfaghan.*
Lord Athenree.
Ulick Bourke.
COLONEL THE EARL OF CLANRICARDE.
This great family of De Burgh deduces its origin
from Charlemagne. His descendant, Baldwin the
dl2 KING JAMES'S I&ISU ARMT LIST.
Second, was father of Ilarlowen, who married Arlotta,
the mother of William the Conqueror. His eldest
son by her was Robert, Earl of Cornwall, who accom-
panied his half-brother William in the invasion of
England. The grandson of Robert was Adelm, who
is said to have married Agnes, daughter of Louis the
Seventh, King of France, and he was father to
William, who married Isabella, daughter of Richard
the Second, King of England, and widow of the cele-
brated Llewellyn, Prince of Wales. lie founded with
pious policy the Monastery of St. Thomas a-Becket
in Dublin, and was father of Richard De Burgh, the
great Lord of Connaught, Viceroy of Ireland in 1227,
and who died in 1243, when on his passage to
France, attended by his Barons and Knights, to meet
the King of England at Bourdeaux. He had two
sons, Walter, I^ord of Connaught, who, marrying
Maud, daughter and heiress of Hugh De Lacie the
Younger, became in her right Earl of Ulster on the
death of his father-in-law, and who left by his said
wife, Richard, the second Earl of Ulster, commonly
known as the Red Earl. His great grand-daughter,
the Ltidy Elizabeth De Burgh, only child and heiress
of William, third Earl of Ulster, married Lionel,
Duke of Clarence, son of Edward the Third ; from
which marriage most of the Crowned Heads of Eurojxj
are descended ; those of England, Scotland, Denmark,
France, Bohemia, Sardinia, Spain, Prussia, Saxony,
Bavaria, Hungary, &c., as all laid down on author-
ities and in tables by Doctor Burke Ryan of London,
EARL OF CLANRICARDE'S INFANTRY. 513
with a kind hope that it might suit the present work;
but, as the record was not found to interest the pre-
cent generation, the expense of such an addition was
reluctantly declined. William, the second son of
Richard the Lord of Connaught, derived large estates
(beyond the two Provinces of Connaught and Ulster),
in Tipperary, where, according to his namesake lie
Burgo, the historian of the Irish Dominican order,
the name was then still widely extended; although, a
few years previous to the time of that laborious wri-
ter, a large portion of the estates of the Tipperary
Bourkes was granted to Sir Oliver Lambert, Knight
and Privy Councillor. The Attainders of 1642 give
but one of this name, John Bourke, described as ' of
Dublin.' At the Supreme Council of 1646, John
'Burke,' Bishop of Clonfert, was of the Spiritual
Peers; William Burke, Baron of Castleconnell, of the
Temporal; and of the Commons were John Burke of
Castlecaroe, Richard of Drumrusk, William of Pol-
lardstown, Richard of Shellewly, Theobald of Buoly-
burk, and Ulick Burke of Glinsk. Cromwell's Act
' for settling Ireland' excepted from pardon for life
and estate Miles ' Bourk,' Viscount Mayo, Sir Theo-
bald Bourk his son ; Edmund of Cloghan, County of
Mayo; Thomas of Anbally, and Redmond of Kilcornin,
both in the County of Galway. The Royal declara-
tion of thanks, as for services beyond the seas,
includes the names of the Earl of Clanricarde ; David
Bourk of Bamanlahie, County of Tipperary; Sir Ulick
Bourk, Knight and Baronet, of Glinsk; Lieutenant
LL
514 KING James's irish army list.
William Bourke of Turlogh, County of Mayo ; and
Captain William Mac Redmond Bourke. Lords Brit-
tas and Castleconnell were on the Establishment of
1617-18 for pensions of £100 per annum each.
In King James's Charters to the Boroughs of Gal-
way, Limerick, Mayo, Cavan, and Koscommon, this
family was numerously represented. In the Parlia-
ment of 1689 sat amongst the Peers this Earl of
Clanricarde, the Viscount Mayo, the Lord Castlecon-
nel. Lord Bophin, and Lord Brittas. The father of
this latter nobleman, the Honorable William Bourke,
served in the lloyalist cause during the Civil war of
1641, and by Cromwell's order was executed at Cork
in 1653. His son, the Lord here six)ken of, served
as above, a Colonel in King James's army. He
married the Lady Ilonora, daughter of Morrough,
the first Earl of Inchequin, by whom he left a son, dis-
inherited by his attainder. This son resided at St.
Germains, assumed the title of Lord Brittas, and died
in France, leaving issue by his wife Catherine,
daughter of Colonel Gordon O'Neill, two sons; John,
styled Lord Brittas, a Captain in the French service;
and Thomas, a Lieutenant-General in the Sardini.an.*
In the Commons sat Sir Ulick Bourke, one of
the Representatives for Galway ; John of Carrickni-
hill, one for Askeaton ; Walter, one for the County of
Mayo ; Thomas for Castlebar ; William Bourke of
Carrowford for the Borough of Tuam ; and John
Bourke for the County of Roscommon. Besides this,
• Burke's Extinct Peerage.
EARL OF CLANRICARDE'S INFANTRY. 515
the Earl of Clanricarde's Regiment, Walter Bourke
was Colonel of a second Regiment of Infantry, Patrick
of a third, and Michael of a fourth; while the name
appears commissioned in twenty-two other Regiments
on this list.
At the siege of Derry in 1689, a Lieutenant Burke
was killed on the occasion of the attack by the wind-
mill.* In the following year, William Burke of the
Mayo line, who had been appointed Governor of the
Castle of Grange in the County of Sligo, was ordered
by King James to defend it ; when, being vigorously
besieged and disappointed of promised succours, at the
moment that the besiegers were about to enter the
breach he blew up the Castle, and, with many of his
enemies, was buried in the ruins. On the 7th of
June, 1691, Baron De Ginkle appeared before Bally-
more on the line to Athlone, and summoned the Irish
Governor, Sir Ulick Burke, to surrender. "The gar-
rison consisted of 800 men, the elite of the Irish, be-
ing picked men from all the Regiments. In the space
of twenty-four hours, six batteries crumbled all the
works to the south, and the appearance of a flotilla
on the lake induced a surrender. Burke, the
Governor," adds O'Conor, " is charged with treachery
and cowardice in King James's Memoir; it would
appear rather that vanity induced the defence, and
incapacity the surrender ;''f and it does appear from
Story that the Governor had no greater artillery in
• Walkers Siege of Deny, p. 61.
t O'Connor's Milit. Mem. p. 135
LL 2
.516 RING James's irisu army list.
the place than 'two small Turkish pieces mounted
upon old cart wheels/* The Irish Engineer, Lieuten-
ant^Colonel Burton, was slain. Colonel David
Burke was killed at Aughrim with another Ulick
Burke, who had been for a time Governor of Galway;f
while a Colonel Neill Burke, his Lieutenant, with
Colonel Walter Burke and Lonl Bophin, w^re taken
prisoners. On the 2nd of September, 1691, writes
Story, " Brigadier Levison, learning where Lord Mer-
rion's and Lord Brittas's Regiments lay, marched as
privately as he could that way ; and about one
o'clock in the morning he fell in with them, killing
several and disj^rsing tlie rest, Lord Merrion himself
(Thomas Fitz- William) escaping narrowly. Then he
divided his party to pui'sue their broken troops, but
they knowing that country, made most of them a
shift to escape."J
The Colonel of this Regiment was a Privy Council-
lor, and was appointed Governor of Galway by King
James ; which, having been l)esieged by De Ginkle
fourteen days after the battle of Aughrim, he was
compelled to surrender.§ O'Conor, in his Military
Memoirs^ (vol. 1, p. 161) denounces this surrender
jis a treacherous compromise. " Lord Clanricarde,"
writes that historian, " inherited neither the courage
nor the loyalty of his ancestor, the great Earl of St.
* Impartial Hist. pt. 2, p. 87.
t Clarke's James II., v. 2. p. 459.
J Impartial Histor}', pt, 2, p. 204.
§ Clarke*s James II. vol 2, p. 469.
EARL OF CLANRICARDE's INFANTRY. 517
Albans ; he compounded his honor for personal
security, and, quitting the service of James, remained
at GaJway, though by the capitulation he was at
liberty to march to Limerick." The Outlawries of
1691 include this Earl by two Inquisitions, William,
Baron of Castleconnell, and Ulick, Lord Viscount
Galway, Lord Brittas, and John his son ; eighteen
Burkes or Bourkes in Mayo ; John Burke of Ower,
and fifteen others in Galway ; six in Limerick, five in
Roscommon, two in Dublin and Wexford respectively,
and one in each of the Counties of Sligo, Cavan, and
the Queen's. In 1696, the name of the Lady Honora
Burke, alias Sarsfield, and then Duchess of Berwick
before alluded to, was entered in the Outlawries. Sir
Ulick the Baronet was also attainted, but adjudged
within the benefit of the Articles of Limerick. The
achievements of the Brigade of Colonel Walter Burke,
styled * the Regiment of Athlone,' are referred to that
Colonel's own Regiment in this service, hereafter
noticed, but it may be here added that a Regiment
commanded by a son of the attainted Lord of Castle-
connell was distinguished at the battle of Cremona ;
while, at that of LauflBeld in 1747, Walter Burke
was taken prisoner in Bulkeley's Regiment ; and
in Dillon's, Captain Pierce * Bourke ' was killed, and
Captain Anthony Bourk wounded.
518 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL EDWARD MADDEN.
The Sept of the O'Maddens were chiefs of what is now
styled the Barony of Longford in the County of
Galway, with a portion of the parish of Lusmagh in
the King's County, on the opposite side of the Shan-
non ; this whole territory being in the Chronicles of
the country called ' Silanchia.' The Annals of Ulster
record the death of Matodhan, Lord of Silanchia, in
the year 1008, who seems to have given their distinc-
tive name to his descendants. In 1059, Melaghlin
O'Madden was the leader of a military expedition re-
corded by the Four Masters. The same Chronicle
mentions the death of Matodhan O'Madden, chief of
Silanchia, in 1096 ; and subsequently gives various
other annals of this family. In 1540, the Lord
Deputy was instructed to confirm treaties between tlie
King and Melaghlin O'Madden and Hugh O'Madden,
Chiefs of their country.* In 1567, on the submission
of Donald O'Madden, who prayed " to be recognised in
the Captaincy of his Sept, (with the country of Long-
fort and Silankey, commonly called O'Madden's
country, whereof Hugh Mac Melaghlin Ballagh
O'Madden, deceased, was the late Captain) his petition
was granted, on the condition of said Donald paying
to the Lord Deputy at MuUingar, for a fine, eighty fat
heifers."f When, in eighteen years after. Sir John
Perrot assembled the Conciliation Parliament in Dub-
* State Papers, temp. Henry VIII. , pt. 3 continued, p. 171.
t Roll 0 Eliz. in Chancery.
EARL OF CLANRICARDE'S INFANTRY. 519
lin, "thither went O'Madden, Lord of Siol-Amcha,
namely Donald, the son of John, son of Breasal," i. e.
the same Donald of 1567. The O'Maddens were,
however, soon after implicated in such resistance to
the government, as led to deaths and confiscations of
many of the name; and in 1606, John King, of Dub-
lin, had a grant of the estates of various O'Maddens
in the County of Galway and the King's County,
' slain in rebellion ;' as had also Sir John Davis, the
Attorney-General of the day, of others described as
the estate of Bresail O'Madden of the County of
Clare, 'slain in rebellion.' In 1612, however, Donald
O'Madden, then still the Captain, settled on trustees
his Manor and Castle of Longfort, and all his other
estates in that part of the County of Galway, to hold
to the use of Ambrose O'Madden his son and heir in
tail male ; with remainder to his other sons Malachy
and Donell, and their respective heirs male ; remainder
to Brasil O'Madden, son of Hugh, one of the sons of
Donell, in tail male ; remainder to the heirs of
Ambrose O'Madden in fee.* A Manuscript Book of
Obits in Trinity College, Dublin, (F. IV. 18.) con-
tains links of the pedigree of the O'Maddens of Bag-
gotrath, near Dublin, through six generations of the
16th and 17th centuries, also some links of those of
Donore, County of Dublin.
Besides the above Lieutenant-Colonel, Michael
Madden was an Ensign in this Regiment, John Mad-
den a Lieutenant in the Earl of Tyrone's ; another
* Patent Roll James I.
520 KING James's irish army list.
John an Ensign in Lord Bophin's, and in Colonel
Heward Oxburgh's Hugh Madden was a Captain, and
John a Lieutenant. This Lieutenant-Colonel Edward
was taken prisoner at the battle of Aughrim ;* but|
having afterwards obtained his liberty, he repaired to
France, where, as before mentioned, ante, p. 4 7 8, he was
commissioned as Major in the Brigade of Fitz-James,
the Grand Prior. Five of this name were attainted
in 1691.
CAPTAIN CHARLES DALY.
This family claims descent from Nial of the Nine
Hostages, one of the most illustrious of Irish Kings,
and whose reign synchronises with the time of the
Saviour. The Sept extended itself at a very remote
period over Munster and Connaught, as well as in
the Barony of Clonlonan, County of Westmeath ;
and, through the long lapse of years, have they been
eminently distinguished as poets and annalists, and
are so commemorated by the Four Masters. In
1337, died Lewis O'Daly, Bishop of Clonmacnoise,
while that interesting locality was yet a Bishop's See.
About the same time O'Daly of Munster had a
grant of Moynter-barry, on a customary tenure of
that time, of being Rythmour or Chronicler of the
Chief Lord and of his achievements, f In 1410,
* Story's Impartial History, pt. 2, p. 188.
t Pacata Hibernia, p. 529.
EABL OF CLANRICARDE'S INFANTRY. 521
John O'Daly had licence from the crown for making
a pilgrimage to Rome, the penalties against absentee-
ism making such a sanction necessary. In 1436,
Nicholas O'Daly was by the Pope's Bull appointed
Bishop of Athenry. It is alleged that in the middle
of the succeeding century, in consequence of a wish
expressed by the King of Denmark to Queen Eliza-
beth, to have Irish manuscripts then in his possession
translated, one Donald Daly was selected for the
work ; but that the project was abandoned, being
opposed in Council, ' lest it might be prejudicial to
the English interest.' In 1582, Robert Daly died
Bishop of Kildare. In 1606, John King, of Dublin,
had a grant of parcel of the estate of Morrogh O'Daly
of Ballinakill in the King's County, ' slain in rebel-
lion.' By a remarkable deed of 1612, Donough, son
of Laughlin Roe O'Daly of Finvara in the County
of Clare, " in consideration of six pounds of pure
crowned stamped money of England, (as pure, as
refined, and as valuable as that coin now is in Eng-
land, and as it was when first it was made current,
consisting of four ounces to every pound,)" then stated
to have been received by said Donough from An-
thony, son of James, son of Ambrose Lynch ofGalway,
merchant, conveyed to him certain premises in Finvara,
with royalties ' over and under ground,' as his pro-
portion of the estate of Finvara held by the Daly
family from the Earl of Thomond.* Early in the
Civil war of 1641, the Marquis of Clanricarde
* Hardiman's Ancient Deeds, pp. 91-2.
522 KING James's irisu a&my list.
committed the custody and safe-keeping of the Castle
of Clare-Galway to Lieutenant Dermot O'Daly, ' who
did very good service there/ He was the grandson of
Dermot O'Daly, who in 1478 obtained a grant of the
Manor of Lerha with all its appurtenances. The At-
tainders of 1641 comprise the names of Loughlin
Daly of Little Clonshaugh, County of Dublin ; Donogh
Hugh Buy Daly of Neeston, County of Kildare ; and
Eneas O'Daly of Ballyrowne, County of Cork. In
1662, died Daniel O'Daly a native of Kerry, who had
founded the Dominican convent at Lisbon ; he after-
wards became an especial favourite and confidential
ambassador of the Duke of Braganza, when that noble-
man succeeded to the throne of Portugal. O'Daly
wrote a work giving fiill historical particulars of the
family of Desmond, long rare, but now reprinted.
He was himself buried in the convent he had so estab-
lished.
In this Regiment, besides Captain Charles, Paul,
Hugh and Thady Daly were Lieutenants, and the
name was in commission in four others. This Captain
Charles was of the Dunsandle family, and in King
James's Parliament of 1689 was one of the Represent-
atives for the Borough of Athenry ; as was Richard
Daly of Kilcorky for that of Newborough, County of
Wexford. Charles was brother of the Right Honora-
ble Denis Daly, who was appointed one of the Justices
of the Common Pleas in Ireland at the commencement
of the reign of James the Second. Colonel O'Kelly, in
tlie ''Eoccidium Macarice^' while he admits his ' great
EARL OF CLANRICAKDE'S INFANTRY. 523
knowledge of the law/ says he was one of Tyrconners
confidants, and therefore imprisoned in Galway by the
young Duke of Berwick, as on suspicion of keeping
private correspondence with the common enemy ; but,
adds O'Kelly, "his deliverer was near at hand, for,
within a few days after his confinement, he had the
good fortune to hear of Tyrconners landing at Lime-
rick ; and no sooner was he arrived there, than he
made use of his prerogative to enlarge the Judge, and
restore him, without further trial, to his former
station and dignity.* He was included in the
Attainders of 1691, but in 1698 obtained a pardon
from the Crown as in pursuance of the Capitulation of
Galway, and the special promise of the Earl of Ath-
lone. The Dalys attainted in 1691 were Peter and
Terence of Killileigli, County of Westmeath, (Thomas
Daly was then the head of the Killileigh line, but was
a minor) ; Eugene of Cork, merchant ; John, also
of Cork ; John of Cloghrevanny, County of Galway ;
Edward of Kilmeny, do. ; with the above Judge
Denis and Captain Charles. At the sale of 1703 by
the Commissioners of the Forfeited Estates, Colonel
John Eyre of Eyrecourt purchased the lands of Bally-
house and Killevany in the Barony of Longford and
County of Galway, the estate of Teigue or Hugh Daly,
attainted. This Hugh was the father of Teigue, which
latter had died in 1691, leaving four sons, the three
elder of whom were in King James's army, and after
the surrender of Limerick went into France. Lough-
* O'Callagban's Excid. Mac. p. 106.
524 KING James's iRisn army list.
I'm Daly, the fourth son. subsequently in 1711 s«Mi}rht
to recover these estates from the Eyres by proceedings
in Chancery, alleging that the conveyance fn?m the
Trustees was for his benefit: but his claim was de^
featerl.
In 1746, Ensign Daly in Monroes Regiment was
one of those wounde^l at the battle of Culloden. The
Mayor of Gal way from 1761 to some few years since
was in almost unbroken succession a Daly, while the
Parliamentary representation of the town was like-
wise long held by the family.
CAPTAIN JAMES TALBOT.
This individual was the proprietor of Templeogue in
the County of Dublin, and represented the borough of
Ath(;nry in King James's Parliament. At the battle
of Aughrim he had the command of a Regiment, and
was there killed.* He forfeited largely in the County
of Galway, and in the County and City of Dublin.
II is estates in the latter county were sold by the com-
missioners of the forfeitures to Sir Compton Domville,
CAPTAIN JOHN STEPHENSON.
This officer is d(?scribed in the Inquisition on his out-
lawry Jis of Bally vaughan, County of Limerick ; but
♦ Story's Impartial History, pt. 2, p. 188.
EARL OF CLANRICARDE'S INFANTRY. 525
his confiscations were of estates in that of Clare.
John Stephenson was an attesting witness to the ar-
tides of Galway. In the reign of James the First,
William and Richard 'Stevenson* had patents of na-
turalization, and the name was yet earlier introduced
in Munster in the time of Elizabeth. In 1600, the
custody of the castle of Corkroge on the Shannon was
entrusted to Oliver Stephenson* who became a Col-
onel in the Austrian service, but in 1648 petitioned
Ferdinand the Third to permit him to resign his com-
mission and fight against Cromwell when invading
Ireland.f His prayer was granted, and he afterwards
fell at the battle of Liscarrol. It may be observed
that an Oliver Stephenson was Captain on this List in
Colonel Koger Mc Ellicott's Infantry, where Nicholas
Stephenson was his Lieutenant.
CAPTAINS LORD ATHENRY AND JOHN AND
WILLIAM BERMINGHAM.
This historic name has been early projected on the
Irish chronicles. In 1302, Henry de Bermingham,
afterwards Sheriflf of Connaught,J was one of the
* Magnates' of Ireland who attended the Earl of Uls-
ter on the Royal summons to the Scottish war ; soon
afl«r which Sir John Bermingham was created Earl
* Pacata Hibemia, p. 123.
t O'Conor's Hist. Address, pt. 2, p. 466.
X Harris's Hibemica, pt. 2, p. 85.
526 KING James's irish army list.
of Louth, by reason of his gallant and successfiil resis-
tance to Bruce's invasion. It is recorded that on the
death of Lord Walter de Benningham in 1354, in-
debted to the King, his estates with his armour were
taken by the Escheator ; but King Edward at once
restored the armour piece by piece, as in a schedule,
to Sir Robert de Preston, who was guardian of Lord
Walter's infant son, in trust to deliver same to him on
his coming of age.* In 1402, John Bermingham was
appointed a Justice of the King s Bench in Ireland.
In 1464, Philip Bermingham was constituted Chief
Justice of the Common Pleas there; he, in 1488, did
homage to Sir Richard Edgecombe. In 1489, Wil-
liam Bermingham died Chief Justice of the King's
Bench, to which high judicial oflSce Patrick Berming-
ham was appointed in 1521. At the meeting of the
Irish Parliament in 1541, considerable surprise is
said to have been caused by the unexpected attendance
of Lord Bermingham of Athenry, Lord Barry, Lord
Roche, and Lord Fitz-Morris ; 'which Lords had not
been here for many years before.'f These noblemen,
together with the Earls of Ormond and Desmond, and
the Baron of Upper Ossory, previous to opening Par-
liament, as Saint Leger the Lord Deputy in his zeal
announced to Henry the Eighth, "attended the solemn
mass of the Holy Ghost, the most part of them in their
robes, and rode on in procession, in such sort as the like
thereof has not been seen here of many years.''J
* Lynch on Feudal Dignities, p. 12. f Idem, p. 88.
I State Papers, temp, Henry VIII. pt. 8 continued, p. 804-
EABL OF CLANRICAKDE's INFANTRY. 527
Lord Athenry sat in the Parliament of 1560 ; and,
in seven years after, having avowed himself to the
Queen under recognizance, a faithful subject of the
Crown, and offered to surrender his estates for himself
and his Sept, and to receive back from her Majesty the
same according to her pleasure, she in consideration
thereof directed a patent to pass to him accordingly
in tail male.* He sat as a Peer in the Parliament of
1585. The Attainders of 1642 present the names of
the above William Bermingham, described as of Bally-
namallough. County of Kildare ; John Bermingham
of Raheen and Muckland, with six others of the name
in the County of Cavan, and three in that of Dublin,
one in Wicklow, and one in Meath. At the Supreme
Council of Kilkenny, Francis Bermingham, then Lord
Athenry, sat as a Temporal Peer : with four Ber-
minghams in the Commons. This Lord Athenry was,
in 1652, excepted by Cromwell's Ordinance from par-
don for life and estate.
Besides the above Captains, the name appears on
this List commissioned in three other Regiments. In
King James's Parliament of 1689 sat this Lord
Athenry as one of the Peers, while the above John
Bermingham, who was Portrieve of Castlebar in its
new Charter, sat as one of its Representatives. Near
the close of this campaign, on the 19th of August,
1691, by the Articles for the surrender of the island
and garrison of Bophin, "Lord Athenry and Colonel
John Kelly, with all the inhabitants of said island,
* Lynch on Feudal Dignities, p. 216.
528 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
were permitted to possess and enjoy their estates
therein, as they held them under the Acts of Settle-
ment and Explanation."* The Attainders of 1691
include the names of the above Lord Athenry ; of said
Captain, described as John Bermingham of Gastlebar,
County of Mayo; with two of the name in Meath, two
in the Queen's County, three in Kildare, and two in
Galway.
LIEUTENANT EDMUND D'ARCY.
The family of D'Arcy, writes Burke,f "ranks with
the most eminent established in England by the Nor-
man conquest, and amongst the peerages of past times.
There are two Baronies in abeyance^ one forfeited
Barony, and three extinct Baronies, all of which had
been conferred upon the House of D'Arcy, besides the
extinct Earldom of Holderness." The D'Arcys of
Hyde Park are the chief and eldest existing line of
this ancient race in Ireland, and to Sir Bernard Burke's
memoir of that House the genealogical inquirer is
best referred. Of this family. Sir John D'Arcy,
Knight, had been Chief Justiciary and Governor of
Ireland in 1324, 1327, and 1341 ; on the latter
occasion, the appointment was made to him for life.
He had large grants to him and his heirs male of
manors and lands in the County of Westmeath, with
* Story's Impartial History, pt. 2, p. 201.
t Landed Gentry, p. 306.
EARL OF CLANRICARDE'S INFANTRY. 529
Knight's fees and advowsons of churches; and, marry-
ing twice, had by his first wife a son, who was ances-
tor of the D'Arcys, Barons D'Arcy and Moynell, and
of the Earls of Holdemess. His second wife was
Jane, daughter of Richard de Burgh, Earl of Ulster,
and widow of Thomas Fitz-John, Earl of Kildare; upon
which marriage he settled in Ireland, and became the
founder of the family of Flatten, from which the other
D'Arcys of this country have branched. When Lam-
bert Simnel shook the allegiance of Ireland, and was
crowned King at Christ Church Cathedral in 1487,
it is related that Sir William D'Arcy of Flatten bore
him out on his shoulders, after the ceremony, to the
deluded multitude. Sir William was however par-
doned in the following year, on doing homage to Sir
Richard Edgecombe.
The Attainders of 1642 present the names of Ni-
cholas D'Arcy of Flatten, County of Meath (who had
attended the great meeting at the hill of Crofty),
Francis D'Arcy of Ballymdunt, County of Kildare ;
and Christopher of Athlumney, County of Meath.
Nicholas of Flatten had, however, a Decree of Inno-
cence in 1666, and was further restored to his estates
by patent of 1670. Fatrick D'Arcy of the Galway line
was one of the Confederate Catholics who sat at Kil-
kenny in 1646, and he was accordingly excepted from
pardon for life and estate in Cromwell's Act of 1652.
In the Establishment of 1685, Sir William D'Arcy was
placed for a pension of £400 per annum ; while, in
the new Charter of 1687 to Galway, six D'Arcys were
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530 RL\G JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
appointed Burgesses. Besides the above Lieutenant,
there appear on this Army List, Nicholas D'Arcy, a
Cornet in Lord Dongan's Dragoons (afterwards
wounded at Deny), and Thomas D'Arcy, a Quarter-
Master in Sir Neill CNeill's. A short time previous
to the battle of the Boyne, Killeshandra, which was
garrisoned by one hundred and sixty Irish under the
command of a Captain D'Arcy, was obliged to surrender
to Colonel Wolseley.* Those attainted in 1691 were
Nicholas D'Arcy, described as of Flatten (who had
been nominated an Alderman in King James's Charter
to Drogheda), George D'Arcy his son, and Thomas
D'Arcy of Corbetstown and Porterstown, County of
Westmeath. Various claims were preferred at Chi-
chester House in 1700, as affecting the confiscations
of Nicholas D'Arcy in Westmeath.
LIEUTENANT BRYAN MAHON.
This officer was of a family that, as appears from the
Patent Rolls of James, settled about this time in the
County of Galway, and, as well fh)m the date of its
migration being contemporaneous with the planting
of Ulster, as from the adoption of the same christian
names, appears to have branched from the illustrious
House of Mac Mahon, dynast of Monaghan. His
father, Bryan Mahon the Elder, of Loughrea, was in
1665 possessed of considerable property in that neigh-
* Rawdon Papers, p. 822.
EARL OF CLANKICARDE'S INFANTRY.
531
bourhood, the leasehold portion of which, having been
held under Lord Bophin, was, on the attainder of that
nobleman, the subject of claim before the Commis-
sioners at Chichester House, on the part of his widow
Maggin Mahon, alias Power, who was afterwards
interred with her husband in the family vault at the
old Abbey of Loughrea. They left two sons ; the
elder, James, became the ancestor of the Mahons of
Beech-hill, County of Galway ; the second, this Bryan,
who was advanced to a Captaincy before his death,
(which occurred in 1719), became a conformist, and
was ancestor of the Baronets of Castlegar.
REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.
ALEXANDER, EARL OF ANTRIM.
Captamt,
Ensigns,
The Colonel
Archibald M-Donnel.
Randall M'Donnell.
BfArk Talbot,
Denis CallsghAn.
Lieat..Col.
Junes Wogan,
Francis Moore.
Con. O'Ronike.
Major.
Lord of Enniskillen.
; Eneas M*Donnel.
^ohnO'NeiU.
> Francis O'Neill.
Hogh O'NeOL
Bryan O'Neill.
Angostine McDonnell,
Edmund 0*Beil]j.
Bryan Magrath.
Fran. BeUly.
Manna O'Donnell.
Bryan O'Neill.
John O'Cahan.
UUckBonrke.
Terence M'Sweeny.
Eneas M'DonneU.
Dmiel M'Donald.
John O'Neill
Turlogh O'Neill.
Biyan M'Ginnia.
John M'Donald.
JohnM<Manns.
Arthor MagiU.
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532 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
COLONEL ALEXANDER McDONNEL, EARL
OF ANTRIM.
About the middle of the fifteenth century, the
McDonnels or McConnells, Lords of the Western
Isles of Scotland, established a branch of their family
in Antrim, by the marriage of John McConnell with
Sarah, daughter of Phelim O'Neill of Clandeboy. He
thereupon principally resided in Ireland, and the
alliance seems to have given rise to a claim set up
by the McConnells to Clandeboy. John Mc Connell,
junior, his heir, was knighted by King James the
Fourth of Scotland ; but afterwards, about 1494, re-
belled against him, for which he and three of his sons
were taken and executed at Edinburgh. The two
eldest, Alexander and Angus, on the deaths of their
kindred, fled to Ireland, where Mac Cahane gave his
daughter Catherine in marriage to Alexander. James,
the heir of that marriage, passed over to Scotland,
leaving his brother 'Sorleboy' to hold possession of the
Glyns in Antrim. He, however, having been after-
wards, about 1565, hardly pressed by the O'Neill, soli-
cited and obtained his brother's assistance. O'Neill at
once gave them battle with signal success, James was
killed, and Sorleboy taken prisoner; they had a brother,
Angus the younger, also killed on this occasion. Sor-
leboy afterwards married Mary, daughter of Con
( Boccagh) O'Neill, by whom he had issue James, who
was knighted by James the Sixth on visiting Edin-
EARL OF ANTRIM'S INFANTRY. 533
burgh* Sorleboy remained in Ireland, having been
established on his estates by Queen Elizabeth, but his
brothers returned to Scotland ; and one of their de-
scendants, Coll Kittach, the son of Archibald, was
father to AlisterMac Coll, who, as hereafter mentioned,
was sent by the first Marquis of Antrim to join
Montrose at Tippermuir. Coll Kittach himself be-
came the prisoner of the Marquis of Argyle, and was
executed at Dunstaffnage, near Oban.
An old family Manuscript of the Mac Quillanes,
purporting to give a catalogue of the Orgillian Princes,
descended from Colla Uais, the grandson of King
Carbry, mentions Mugdome as the 38th on this suc-
cession, in whose time it says, " in 1580, Coll Mac Don-
nell came to Ireland, being the fifth lineal descendant
from Donald, King or Lord of the Hebrides and of
' Cantyre. His clandestine marriage with a daughter
of Mac Quillan, Lord of Rathmor-Mac-Quillan, now
Dunluce, was the cause of a war between these two
families ; which was not terminated till 1610, when
James the First of England unjustly deprived
Mac Quillan of his lands, and divided them amongst
his patentees, which lands are now some of the best
improved in Ireland. To Mc Donnell, the son-in-law
or brother-in-law of Mac Quillan, he gave the four
great Baronies of Dunluce, Carie, Ballycastle, and
Glenarm, with the island of Raghery ; to Sir John
Chichester he gave the Barony of Belfast and town of
Carrickfergus ; to the Seymours and Conways part of
• Gregory MSS.
534 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST.
Massareene ; to the Skeffingtons another portion of
Massareene ; and several other persons he ennobled
at that time or soon after, some of whom were not the
most loyal subjects to his son Charles the First."
Previous to this period, Hugh O'Donnell, chief of his
nation, married a daughter of James McDonnel, Lord
of the Isles, by whom he had the celebrated hero, Red
'Hugh O'Donnel,' in whose ensuing wars with the
Queen, the McDonnels afforded him great assistance.
James Mac Sorleboy, before alluded to, was one of
those who supported O'Neill at the battle of the Black-
water. The Four Masters contain many annals of
this family, that cannot be brought forward here.
In 1613, King James directed his mandatory let-
ter for an Act of Parliament to secure Sir Randal
Mac Sorley McDonnell in all his lands, &c. in Ulster,
to hold to him and his heirs male by his wife Elly ny
Neale, remainder to the heirs male of his body and to
those of Alexander McDonnel, his cousin, and of Con
McDonnel his late cousin successively, remainder to
the right heirs of Sir Randal for ever. In 1618, the
same Monarch created this Sir Randal, who was a de-
scendant of the Lords of the Isles and grand-father of
the nobleman at present under consideration, Viscount
Dunluce in the Peerage of Ireland, and in two years
after advanced him to the Earldom of Antrim. On
the Attainders of 1642 appear of this name six in the
County of Wicklow, three in Cork, two in Dublin,
and one in Eildare. Randal, then Earl, and his bro-
ther, this Alexander, were also affected by attainder,
EARL OF ANTRIM'S INFANTRY. 535
but were by a clause in the Act of Settlement restored
to their estates (excepting tithes).
In 1644, the gallant Montrose, desirous to raise
forces in Ireland to uphold the Royal cause in Scot-
land, commissioned Earl Randal, as an Irishman by
birth and a Scot by descent, to effectuate the import-
ant object ; and, for facilitating these levies, he directed
the Marquess of Ormonde, then Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland, to procure a cessation of arms there between
the Catholics and the Protestants, both parties being
then considered alike favourable to the enlistment.
Accordingly, when Montrose himself entered Scotland
with but two companies, he was joined by 1,200 Irish
recruits, commanded by Alexander McDonnell, whom
Earl Randal (then advanced to a Marquisate) sent
over to the cause. This Alexander or Alister Mac
Coll, son of Coll Kittach as before mentioned, had
Coll his eldest son, from whom was lineally descended
the late Doctor McDonnell, long the national and
literary attraction of Belfast. Another son of Alister
was Archibald, the Lieutenant in this Regiment, who
died in 1720, aged 73, and was buried in the secluded
churchyard of Layde on the coast of Antrim ; as was
his son Coll, who died in 1737, and Coil's son
Alexander, who died in 1793.
To return to Earl Randal : he died in 1682, when
the Marquisate became extinct ; but the other honors
continued to his son, the above Colonel, who also had
taken an active part in the Civil war of 1641, and
was attainted therefor, but restored by the Act of
Settlement. In 1646, being then Earl of Antrim in
ihs fathers